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.

JAPS FOR DIFFERENT CHAPS

Classic Bike

Delightful day out • New minglesd with old as the site of Britain’s first-ever permanent racing circuit hosted a motorcycle show for everyone

Brooklands highlights

Nitrous and nostalgia • It’s been a regular fixture on the classic calendar for a while now – and exerting an ever-stronger attraction for old-school straightliners and burn-out fans

Making merry at Mallory • The annual event that gathers machines from all ages roared back to the Leicestershire circuit for the first time post-pandemic – and we were there to witness its comeback

A Gold Star for grandad

One from the heart

Coming up short on the Sport

The season’s hot tickets

Grand FINALE • This Featherbed-framed JAP-Norton is a fitting curtain call for a superb series of classic special builds by renowned restorer John Mossey

La Dolce Vita • Breezing along roads threading through beautiful Italian scenery on a selection of ’70s classics like this sounds too good to be true. But that’s the kind of blast to the past Piero Pirazzoli’s Ride70s offers...

John Banks • Although cruelly robbed of a world championship by communist curruption, the 78-year-old British ex-racer and businessman has fond memories of racing around the globe

GLITTERING COMEBACK • CB’s first ride of reborn BSA’s 21st-century Gold Star reveals there’s more than enough of the original’s DNA to provide a genuinely evocative ride on modern roads

Michael Salvatore • Michael likes Harley-Davidson’s big, rumbling V-twins, but it’s the less celebrated two-strokes the company churned out that are his real passion – and he’s got quite a few of them...

ODDLY ENDEARING CONTRAPTION • OEC’s V-twin featured some innovative steering and suspension concepts which provide an interesting riding experience, as we discovered...

BROADFORD BIKE BONANZA • Aussie motorcycling extravaganza blasts back after two years off with its first post-pandemic playtime

Classic Workshop • Spannering supremo Rick Parkington welcomes you to our

Not too old to be stupid • Nobody’s perfect – and Ricks as fallible as the rest of us, as events this month have proved...

Properly oiled up

HOW TO Repair a brass carb float bowl • Last month I mentioned an unexpected leak from my Sunbeam’s Amal carb float bowl. Here’s how I fixed it

RICK’S TOP TIPS

Bearing up under strain

PUMP IT UP

HAIRPIN HISTORY

Too young to die…

Stuartringer

A question of definition • This month Rick queue-jumped his vintage Sunbeam onto the workbench to replace the original engine with a later one. He claims he’s preserving originality – maybe he can explain...

Bottom end justifies the means

Old ’57 rolls again • Like London buses, not only did Gazza get his Triumph sorted last month, but he’s now also got his Matchless back on the road. Once again, only thanks to a lot of help from his friends

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