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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Contributors in this issue

Letters

Laurie’s lightweights

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

Here’s mud in your eye • Translating the spirit of their legendary dirt-track racer into the skin of a road-legal motorsickle was a stretch, but Harley-Davidson’s XR1000 made a fair fist of it

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Grand Prix, NW200 and US King Of The Baggers winner Jeremy McWilliams has done it all. These are his three buys, if presented with an imaginary £10k…

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

Moto Morini 3½ • Morini Riders Club chairman Tom Farrow has been a huge fan of Morinis – and 3½s especially – since he was a lad. Here’s his overview and top tips

12 bikes that sold • Auction prices, live and online, provide a genuine guide to values. Gez Kane selects the most desirable and revealing bikes that were sold over the last last month

Moto Guzzis • Models from the Mandello del Lario factory come in all shapes and sizes. Which models will suit your budget, though? Recent auction results reveal all…

And 12 from Las Vegas • The big players in the US classic bike scene hit the gambling capital of Nevada at the end of January for the annual Mecum sale. Gez Kane spins the wheel of fortune

Cashing in his chips • Unlike most people, classic dealer David Silver managed to leave Las Vegas with more money than he went with, having sold a load of bikes

Trials outfit recreated • Velocette restorers Ivan Rhodes and Bob Higgs have made a perfect replica of the 1930s ISDT Gold Medal-winning outfit

What’s new

Richard Negus • Highly respected former Norton engineer has died, aged 80

BSA Scrambler unveiled

A Winter’s tale • Despite freezing temperatures and a midnight start time, there were 120 motorcycle entries for January’s Exeter Trial. CB’s editor was one of them

Three things…

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

In the April issue of Classic Bike

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TREASURE OF THE TRACK • The T120 Thruxton is the most revered of all Triumph Bonnevilles. This one is now restored back to its ’60s race glory – but its owner had no idea how extra special it was when he chanced upon it

Reconnecting to the past

Hoss Elm • Ducati’s Mr Fixit of the ’90s got Foggy on a factory 916, ran a World Superbike team and sold a lot of red bikes

EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE • Honda’s original Africa Twin makes an excellent classic all-rounder – it’s a genuine...