Classic Bike

Classic Bike helps and inspires enthusiasts to get more from their passion for classic motorcycles. The magazine shares their fascination with motorcycling’s heroic past while also helping them buy, fix and improve the bikes in their shed. Our main areas of content are: - Inspirational and entertaining reads that celebrate the glory of motorcycling, from riding stories that put the reader in the seat of history’s greatest bikes to incredible racing tales - Restoration stories and instructional features that inspire and help people get their tools out and sort out their old bike - In-depth technical features from the most expert and authoritative writers in motorcycling If you share our passion about classic motorcycles from the last century, you'll enjoy reading Classic Bike.

A GREAT PAST AND A FINE FUTURE

Classic Bike

If Guzzi can do a V8... • Fifty years ago, the Marsh V8 500cc Grand Prix machine was designed and built in Britain – by a pensioner working in his garden workshop

Very rare v-twin

AERO INSPIRATION

WHAT’S A DUNELT? • I’ve enclosed a picture of my brother’s father-in-laws father from about the war time. He would love to know what the bike is. Someone suggested it is a Dunelt – one I’ve not heard of before. If you could help identify it, that would be great

AN INVENTIVE MIND

HAIR TODAY… GONE TOMORROW

Greevesfield & Co • John Sharp’s Greevesfield is a long-term project – and it has to share his workshop with a few other bikes…

You’re never too old… • This is my mate Malcolm, who is in his 70s, on my YR5. He had never sat on a motorcycle before this moment; I think he looks like a natural. Next step’s to get him riding! (He doesn’t know I’ve sent this in!)

Transverse isn’t perverse • Many years before Moto Guzzi made the configuration their own, AJS produced this across-the-frame V-twin

That’s the SPIRIT • When Mark Turner created this AJS V-twin tribute to a pre-war land speed racer, he relied on scrap material to make his own special parts, using period tools and production methods

-STREAMLINING AND SUBTERFUGE -

The original Arpajon AJS

1927 AJW

1913 Abingdon

1913 Bat

Mark Upham • One of the world’s foremost Brough Superior experts explains how he went from running a Somerset bike shop to building a spares empire and making Brough Superiors

Brough Superior

1927 Coventr y Eagle

Parallel universe • This is one of four alternative BSA V-twins, created to show what the firm could have built, rather than ploughing the parallel-twin furrow

SECRETS up their SLEEVES • This 1925 Grindlay Peerless ST1 was a revelation in its day, featuring an innovative Barr & Stroud engine with two-stroke style porting in a thundering four-stroke

In the lord’s name • Its aristocratic upbringing promised great things, but this two-wheeled Aston Martin built on Lord Hesketh’s country estate was a bit of a state

Initially aspirational • JAP V-twin engines powered some of the most renowned motorcycles of the Vintage era

James with jam on it • The Model B2 Super Sports V-twin was the high water mark for the marque best known for its commuter bikes

X marks the sweet spot • The 1938 Matchless 990cc V-twin was a motorcycle that matched the Brough Superior SS100 in everything but price

Matchless in parts • This successful works racer was British manufactured, but powered by a Swiss motor, with few self-produced components

Rivetting stuff • Matt Wright and New Imperial rose to the challenge of cramming 100 miles into the hour on a multi

Just like Rem’s • Rem Fowler won at the first IoM TT on a bike identical to this one, whose restoration also proved a mountain to climb

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