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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Contributors in this issue

Letters

My hard yards on an RD200

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

Striking stroker • Hard not to love a ’70s trailie – especially when it’s a hefty two-stroke with this name on the tank. Just imagine smoking through a golden autumn on this Yamaha DT400E

12 bikes you can buy • Gez Kane has assembled a real smorgasbord of classic models available for sale this month – from a ’60s Monkey bike to a Slabbie GSX-R and an ex-Hailwood Honda racer

12 bikes that sold • A dirt-digging demon, the ultimate luxury tourer and a period dragstrip rocket. These are just some of Gez Kane’s picks from machines that sold in the past month

Ultimate TZ750 for sale • Johnny Cecotto’s world championship-winning factory Yamaha goes under the hammer

What’s new

Ginger Molloy, RIP • Kiwi battled Ago for the 1970 500cc world championship

Flea flies electrically

Goodwood Revival • We slipped into our finest period clobber and headed to West Sussex for the annual celebration of all things classic – as always, it was a feast of sights, sounds and action

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

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JUST SO COOLEY • Never heard of a Suzuki GS1000S homologation special? Neither had Ian Webster – until he bought this one and meticulously restored it. Turns out this AMA race rep goes as well as it looks

Trevor Nation • British champion, double TT winner and possibly the most humble race star ever. But why did he shove a factory Ducati into a ditch?

Fast like Freddie • If you like two-stroke sports bikes, a good Honda NS400R is up there with the best. The trick is buying a good one. Here’s how

100 years of Fowlers • Still run by the same family that founded it a century ago, Fowlers of Bristol is one of the most recognisable dealer names in motorcycling. We take a good poke around in their archive

Ducati 750 Paso • Box-section frame, carburettor from a car, radial tyres, all-enclosed bodywork… Ducati’s sports-tourer was revolutionary in the mid-’80s – and is an overlooked classic today. Let’s say happy 40th birthday to the Paso…

‘I’ve always been obsessed with the Paso’ • An early encounter meant CB editor Mike Armitage has harboured a long-term fascination with the revolutionary sports tourer. Forty years on, he gets to ride one

‘A whole new level of fun’ • All tiddlers offer much entertainment, but few can bring grins quite like Bill Gysin’s multi-cylinder Mobylettes

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