Classic Bike Guide

Classic Bike Guide is a down to earth, practical - and sometimes irreverent - magazine that gets right to the heart of the classic bike world. With a mixture of features, tests, reviews and event reports it is the title that has become a must for the active rider and restorer. Classic Bike Guide magazine - with the biggest and best readers adverts - FREE! Enjoy the digital edition - and save over 50% on the print susbcription price.

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Gus Kuhn Commando • Gus Kuhn was a speedway rider and TT racer, and competed in most other two-wheel sports. He also ran his own shop, but will always be best known for a bike he never saw – the Gus Kuhn Commando

Who was Gus Kuhn?

Classic Bike Guide

Harry’s lifeboat challenge

Motorcycle industry launches elite rider training initiative

Going from Coast to Coast

Norton Motorcycles secures a slice of history

Eastern delights finally get to meet

Are you a tortoise or a hare?

Classics on Anglesey

What we liked at the Stafford Show • Maria and Oli went looking for bikes they liked – and here’s what they found

Products

Fancy a day out? • Sun, heat and long evenings – get out there!

Anything to say?

Once in a lifetime • Photographer and BMW stalwart Owen Howells built an off-road GS-style bike from his 1982 R80ST. Not content with riding around his native Wales, he decided to travel to Albania on the Trans European Trail and document it for us all, in the first of a two-part feature

PREPARATION FOR ADVENTURE TOURING ABROAD

Moto Parilla MSDS 175 • This wonderful bike has a wonderful story behind it, and the result is stunning

1961 PARILLA MSDS

The Matchless PLUTO! • A little-known star from AMC could have been the future of the company...

Honda Bros 400 and 650 • Underrated, undersold, overlooked and over here. The Honda Bros 400 or 650 is one of the greatest, best-looking bikes around, especially if you like your bikes small and nimble

Grey imports – the perfect storm

I ride one

Royal Enfield Model G • Forever in the shadow of the Bullet, early Enfields can make great classic bikes for a lot less money than their rivals

Royal Enfield Classic 350 Built like a gun? Time will tell if the new Classic 350 hits the target Words by Maria Hull Photography by Matt Hull

I rode it too – Matt

Renovate Air Filters • When you can’t buy new air filters, it’s time to get creative

CLEANING AIR FILTERS

POD FILTERS

QUESTIONS...

Project BMW • Odds and sods as the road beckons

Intellectual spannering • Sometimes it isn’t having the right tools, but a logical mind working through the possibilities

Famous Last Words • A Matchless letting Frank down? And electrics are not to blame...

Who do they think they are?