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.

Startline • European Grand Prix, Santa Pod, July 1975

Contributors in this issue

Letters

My random life in a magazine

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

Affordable exotica • There probably isn’t a more glamorous combination of brands than Ducati and Bimota, and yet this rare, distinct Bimota DB2 also looks both affordable and fabulously useable

‘If I had £10,000…’

12 bikes you can buy • Looking for a winter project, a bike to carry you towards a (hopefully) golden autumn or just a machine you’ve always wanted? Gez Kane checks out what’s on offer this month

Slow and big fun

12 bikes that sold • Some bargain buys and top-end collectors’ pieces ready to cheer their new owners into autumn

Aprilia Moto 6.5 • Curious name and unexpected looks, but the funky Italian single is rare, unique and a design classic – and currently still quite affordable. Wade in quick…

Like father, like son • TT star Peter Hickman set to ride the Norton 588 rotary his father Dave helped develop

What’s new

What could have been • Purdy Brough takes a 1954 Speed Twin to a higher level

Stop paying road tax!

Festival of Speed • Noise, smoke, action and more than a few famous faces – there’s not really anything quite like Goodwood. We dusted off a smart shirt and headed to the annual shindig

Diary dates…

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

ONLY £1* AN ISSUE • Get out on the road this summer and enjoy our range of motorcycling magazines for less

In your October issue

Classic Bike

Double top • When it comes to special, little outshines the Vincent Black Lightning. We get up close and personal with a pair of exceptional big twins

Walo Bertschinger

Ben Kingham

Vincents at the Goodwood Revival

Jack of all trades • Simplicity, reliability, longevity – and ace fun. Is the adaptable Honda NX650 Dominator the perfect classic big trailie?

Which to buy, what to pay…

Paul Boulton • The ace mechanic tells us all about driving across Europe with Kevin Schwantz, falling out with Keith Huewen and Paul Iddon’s impressive ears…

Buell XB9R Firebolt • Combining brave engineering and radical geometry with pushrod Harley power, this was one man’s vision for an alternative and evocative sports bike. It’s certainly different…

Buell: a history

Tommy Bullus and NSU • The early 1930s, British rider Tommy Bullus and the German factory NSU beat all comers – until he gave up racing to marry the gaffer’s daughter. Susanne Schartel, great-granddaughter of NSU’s director and Tommy’s great niece,...