Classic Bike Guide

Classic Bike Guide is a down to earth, practical - and sometimes irreverent - magazine that gets right to the heart of the classic bike world. With a mixture of features, tests, reviews and event reports it is the title that has become a must for the active rider and restorer. Classic Bike Guide magazine - with the biggest and best readers adverts - FREE! Enjoy the digital edition - and save over 50% on the print susbcription price.

Time…

■ Speedway – the second most popular sport in the country. In 1980… But flat track is growing and has a vintage class!

Laverda Jota – happy 50th! • Never meet your heroes, or so the saying goes. It’s usually sound advice, but renowned bike journalist Roland Brown finds an exception – the bike that started his career

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Classic news

We've been to Langport Bike Show

We've been to British Motorbike Owners 50th anniversary bike show

Fancy a day out? • Good grief. There is so much going on this August, it is hard to know where to start. Well, obviously, August 1 is a good idea. The calendar is rammed with events, shows, rallies, races, sprints, autojumbles and gatherings, and this is just a fraction – we haven’t the space to fit all the weekend ride-outs and midweek bike nights that are such familiar parts of the motorcycling world, or steam fairs, or Second World War re-enactments and the multitude of community events that will host classic motorcycle displays… Don’t forget to let us know about yours.

Old bike mechanics Directory • Your guide to those who are willing to help us!

Derek Harris 1958-2025 • We take a look at the man that took Lewis Leathers and made it cool every decade, through the eyes of his wife Saaya

Touring bikes of Tassie • Last month, Alan Cathcart told us of the Tassie rally, a classic bike tour of Tasmania. This issue, we present a few of the wonderful machines he was with…

MV125 GTLS • Why did the Italian kids get all the cool 125s? Well, we can now…

Frank Westworth looks back at: Triumph Trident T150V • Three’s No Crowd. Three cylinders in the engine, five gears in the ‘box. Frank Westworth hits the high road with an old favourite…

Just what the hell is flat track? • Dirt track, or flat track, racing has a large classic element to it, just like the golden era when Triumphs and Beezas were racing week by week in the USA. Now you can have a go, on a Royal Enfield, taught by a multiple champion Gary Birtwistle. We sent Maria to get it sideways, and she found the skills you learn are wider reaching than just on the dirt…

When will I be FAMOUS Kawasaki Z750 • If you grew up in the 1980s and 1990s with inline four-cylinder bikes screaming, Bandits pulling wheelies, and loud end cans, the Kawasaki Z750 is one of the unsung examples. It’s a classic in all aspects of the meaning, and it’s cheap…

Breathing new life into clutch shock absorbers or cush drives • This month, we are ‘taking up the slack’… in the transmission department

Things what we’ve been up to… • Oli has been hoovering up all those small jobs like a man possessed!

Fettlin’ for sale • The BSA B31 has found its perfect new owner, but the list of little niggles Matt wants to sort before delivery grows when he starts looking…

Project CBR – an old friend’s new lease of life • Since retirement, Matt’s old race bike continues to go from dining room furniture to workshop, to standard, and back…

Frank’s Famous Last Words • Is enough ever actually enough? Frank’s been scratching his head again…