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

LETTER OF THE MONTH

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

Simple and seductive • Unfussy and elegant, Ducati’s 1990s sports bikes offer an enticing mix of Italian charisma and feel with performance and class. And the 900SS Superlight is the most attractive

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Anthony Godin started on an Italjet 50 when he was seven. Now proprietor of Godin Sporting Cars And Motorcycles Limited, we ask him to spend ten large…

12 bikes you can buy • This is always a good time of year to buy – and more so than ever at the moment, thanks to increasingly affordable prices. Gez Kane picks a selection of winter warmers for sale

Vincent V-twins • Now that post-war Vincent twins are becoming (slightly) more affordable, we get Vincent Owners Club vice-president Ian Savage to give us an overview

12 bikes that sold • Gez Kane gathers together some of the standout machines that have found new owners over the past weeks – from old favourites to desirable emerging classics

Honda CBR1100XX • Occupying the grey area between old bike and full classic status, now is the time to buy Honda’s slick Super Blackbird. Prices are only going to go one way

A passion for bikes • Robert Iannucci, American founder of the famous Team Obsolete, has passed away. Former CB editor Mike Nicks pays tribute to one of the stars of the classic world

What’s new

Not quite as they seem? • This collection of bikes allegedly hidden by a drug fugitive has been found and valued at $40 million. Give or take…

New Thruxton 400

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

In February’s Classic Bike

Classic Bike

125 years of Royal Enfield • They started making bikes in 1901… and now make more bikes with the famous name on their tank than ever before. That’s got to be worth celebrating

International excellence • There was no tougher proving ground than the International Six Days Trial – and RE lapped it up

125 not out • Take a breezy saunter through some of the various ventures and assorted machinery from 46,625 days of Royal Enfield’s bike production

The model that made their name • Some brands are known by model names alone – Porsche for the 911, Hawker for the Hurricane. And so it is with Royal Enfield and the Bullet

Right Royal road trip • RE dominate the modern retro market. We take one of their 650 twins for a Midlands sight-seeing tour

1985 YAMAHA FZ750 • Massively inclined engine, five valves per cylinder...