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

Thrills and no frills on the hills

Issue #550 of Classic Bike was brought to you…

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

Doing things differently • Little shouts ‘British classic’ like a parallel twin. For rumbling autumn fun, we’d take the less trodden path to a trad home-made experience – this 1965 Royal Enfield Interceptor TT

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Steve Tonkin has recently retired as a restoration ace, but keeps his hand in fettling his collection. The 1981 Junior TT winner reveals how he’d spend our cash

12 bikes you can buy • From charming and affordable lightweights to exotic sports bikes, temptation comes in many shapes this month. Gez Kane highlights his pick of the bunch

Ariel Square Four • Simon Holyfield is machine registrar for the Ariel Owners Club and a Square Four owner for 13 years. Who better to explain the appeal of the ‘Squariel?’

12 bikes that sold • Gez Kane takes his pick of the latest recent sales. From budget everyday classics to quality restos and machines with heavyweight provenance, the market is still lively

Royal Enfield Bullet • Focusing on Indian-made Enfield and Royal Enfield Bullet singles – available in the UK since 1977, these models have gained classic status in their own right

Ultimate RG for sale • British championship-winning RG500 is a pinnacle of two-stroke development

What’s new

Like buying a new one • 1990 Norton F1 rotary for sale with just 57 delivery miles

Greeves restructure

Goodwood Revival • This year’s Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy was an exciting mix of star riders, varied machinery and changeable conditions. We slipped into our best tweed and went along to sniff the Castrol R

Diary dates…

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

In your December issue

Classic Bike

Playing King • Gasoline Ally have crafted a Yamaha RD500LC into this breathtaking road-legal Kenny Roberts YZR500 replica. We take it for a spin

‘It was made four decades before I was born’ • Retro is all the rage – but what does a young 21st century bloke think of a real classic? We pop 20-year-old Ed Armitage on a 57-year-old Triumph to find out

Old boy rides a modern retro…

Bruno Tagliaferri • He worked with John Bloor for 29 years, helping turn Triumph into a global force. So what was it like in the early days of the Hinckley bikes?

BSA’s big bargain • Always fancied a British classic but never taken the plunge? The charming, reliable and affordable A10 is a great way in

1984 Honda XLV750R • Today they’re called adventure bikes, but 40 years ago we knew...