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 • Classic Bike, Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, Cambs, PE2 6EA

Joey’s Assen win: 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

Not your usual stroker • Not all ’70s two-strokes are hooligan tackle originating from Japan. And this classy 1978 Silk 700S has us rather fancying a gentleman’s stinkwheel from closer to home

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Ian Lougher, 10-time TT winner, eighttime NW200 winner, 32-time Southern 100 victor. The ‘Lucky’ Welshman tells how he’d spend our pretend ten grand

12 bikes you can buy • From seriously exotic Italian machinery to more affordable everyday classics, there’s a lot to tempt your wallet when it comes to bikes up for sale this month

Moto Guzzi twins • Renowned Guzzi specialist Nigel Billingsley of NBS explains the allure of the Italian company’s big-block Vees

12 bikes that sold • From budget lightweights to high-end exotica, a dozen more new owners get the unrivalled pleasure of riding through summer on their latest purchase

Triumph Speed Four • It might not have the fame and status of the Twin or Triple, but the turn-of-the-century sporty naked is desperately underrated. Here are the tasty details

Hybrid or heresy? • New electric conversions are helping to keep ancient Harleys on the road. Could they work with Nortons, Triumphs and BSAs? And will more classic owners go for them?

What’s new

Snap up a Smart racer • One of legendary 1972 Imola 200 factory Ducatis for sale

Darley Moor up for sale

1926 ISDT Centenary • Retracing parts of the 1926 event in the Peak District, the VMCC North Staffs section met for a day of winding roads, green lanes and tea rooms. We went to wave them off

Diary dates…

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

In your September issue

Classic Bike

SET RIGHT AFTER 30 YEARS • Legendary journalist LJK Setright had a unique Dresda HondaCBX750 built in 1987. Now, three decades after buying it, his friend Mark Pearson has it on the road again

Alan Cathcart • He became the world’s most successful motorcycle journalist by winning races, getting rides on astonishing bikes and then telling us all about them. Sounds easy, but it definitely wasn’t…

THE TURNING POINT • Fast and sharp yet flexible and forgiving, Yamaha’s FZR1000 EXUP is the defining 1980s superbike – and a modern-classic bargain. Mike Armitage explains why it’s so special

Which to buy, what to pay…

Matchless G12 CSR • Its ‘King of the Rockers’ looks have always attracted Rick – but surprisingly, this is...