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.

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Letters

Contributors in this issue

I was there

MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU… • Have you just bought a new project? Or have you finished a project, taken part in an event or just been for a ride? Do you have pictures of you or your friends from your biking past? Or can you identify the riders or a face in the crowd from the Startline image on page four? Please write and tell us

The ideal bike for kids of all ages • Park this Honda XR75 on a large mantlepiece or let your offspring use it to tear up the lawn

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Three-time World 500cc Motocross Champion Dave Thorpe reveals what three items he’d spend £10,000 on (if it was presented to him in a small briefcase)

12 bikes you can buy • Gez Kane is always on the lookout for the tastiest bikes for sale. Here’s what he’s spotted for sale this month – there must be something below to tempt you…

Triumph T20 Tiger Cub • Triumph’s characterful lightweight has stood the test of time. Mike Powell of the Mike Estall Register of Tiger Cubs and Terriers, reveals what to look for

12 bikes that sold • Auction prices, live and online, provide a genuine guide to values. Gez Kane watched these bikes sell last month

Yamaha RDs • Perennially popular and readily available, there’s a Yamaha RD to suit (almost) everybody. Here’s what they’ve been selling for over the last three months

Classic TT returns • Successful pre-Covid format returns, running alongside the Manx Grand Prix

What’s new

Enfield Classic 650 • Royal Enfield reveal 650 twin-cylinder version of the successful 350 Classic

A shore way to a good day out • Mablethorpe’s unique sand racing championship attracts the bold, the brave and the ingenious to the Lincolnshire resort every autumn/winter. It’s accessible racing at its finest

Dates for December

Perfect 10s • This year Alan Seeley has been on the strip, drag racing a Suzuki GSX/Bandit hybrid in the Ultimate Streetbike Championship. The final round was at Santa Pod on October 13

More straightlining classics

Rescued, revived & ridden • The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride

IT’S THE 140-PAGE BUMPER 1975 ISSUE Celebrating 50 years ago…

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No pain No gain • Mark Glitherow has endured tough fettling tasks on a series of Kawasakis. The restoration of this 1993 GPZ900R was no exception – but he got it bang on in the end

Honda Six Recreating a Masterpiece • THE STORY OF THE RECREATION OF THE GREATEST GRAND PRIX RACING MACHINE EVER BUILT

Nigel Bosworth • He tested Grand Prix bikes for Kenny Roberts, started a World Superbike team with Carl Fogarty, and is a goldmine of unheard racing stories. Take it away, Boz…

Triumph Tiger 100 • Take a trip to the past, present and future, as Rick analyses the talents of a bike that shouldn’t be simply relegated to history, especially with prices falling…

Tigers: spot the...