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

Bonkers Bickers beach trike

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

A sweet sight to behold • We accept that the 1975 Kawasaki KT250 may not be the greatest trials tool ever built. But when a motorcycle is as pretty as this, it’s easy to overlook such trivial shortcomings

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Jack Burnicle, photographer, long-time TV commentator, is now a sprightly 78. The Merseyside dweller has no doubts the imaginary loot would all be spent…

12 bikes you can buy • Taking part in this year’s events is the perfect justification to treat yourself to a new bike. Gez Kane scours the market for some inspiration

RD250/350LC • Nick Coker is the membership secretary of The LC Club. He bought his first Yamaha LC back in 1981 and has owned his 1980 RD250LC for 22 years

12 bikes that sold • With the market livening up as we ride into the spring sunshine, Gez Kane casts his eye over a dozen standout bikes that have sold recently – and their sale prices

Laverda 750S • The last models from the famous brand, twin-cylinder 750s are a heady mix of character, performance and style. Now’s the time to pop a fit 750 in your garage

Buy Hailwood’s MV (or maybe Ago’s) • It’s definitely a 1965 factory MV 500 race bike for sale, but the main rider is less certain

What’s new

George Barber passes • Founder of the world’s biggest motorcycle museum dies

1969 Egli Vincent for sale

FIM Racing Museum • The FIM’s glitzy new museum in Switzerland celebrates the riders, bikes and technology that have made racing so great for so long. Alan Cathcart has had a look around

Diary dates…

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

In the May issue ‘The best ever’

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Summer EVENTS Special • Every date and all the essential information for this year’s greatest festivals, races, shows, autojumbles, gatherings, ride-outs and more…

Run to the hills • Firing your machine up a ridiculous slope is as old as biking itself – and there’ll be plenty of inclined action in Worcestershire this April

April • Races, places & events for this summer

Racing on a knife edge • Angel Nieto mastered Bultaco’s terrifying TSS GP tiddler 50 years ago – and you can see similar bikes racing in the UK in May

May • Races, places & events for this summer

Centenary celebrations • This year’s International Six Days Enduro – originally known as the International Six Days Trail – will be the 100th...