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

Joining in with the Joy of Jota

MAGAZINE NEEDS YOU…

Lightweight laughs • Darting round on small bikes is always fun, but today’s fuel prices and speed limits mean it also now makes sense. This Honda MB-8 is the perfect path to dinky-bike giggles

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Grand Prix star of the ’80s and ’90s, British 250 and 350 champion, three times a BSB champion, Niall Mackenzie (64) splashes our pretend £10k wedge

12 bikes you can buy • Summer’s here, and that’s all the excuse anyone needs to treat themselves to a motorcycle. Gez Kane suggests a few corkers to get your wallet twitching

BSA Bantam • Surely the best-loved British lightweight in the classic world. BSA Bantam Club secretary Pete Wilson explains the allure of BSA’s timeless little stroker

12 bikes that sold • With the market livening up ready for summer, Gez Kane is on hand to find out what’s been selling over the past weeks – and for how much

Suzuki 750 SRAD • Nothing captures the sensations and performance of the 1990s sports bike boom like the beam-framed Suzuki GSX-R750. They’re affordable too… for now

MV goes for £937,000! • World record price set by 1965 factory MV Agusta 500 at Bonhams’ Stafford sale

What’s new

Arthur Lampkin, RIP • Former British champion and brilliant all-rounder dies

Scott Leathers closes

Members’ Meeting • We toddled along to Goodwood to catch all the action, great bikes and star riders at the 83rd running of the event that signals the start of the racing season

Diary dates…

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

In your July issue of CB Prototype G/S

Classic Bike

The start of something special • In 1986, Honda rolled out their new VFR750F, and the new VFR400R for Japan. It was a model range that would go on to define the brand

VFR750F swooning

The world’s favourite model line • Honda’s VFR models have been delighting riders for four decades. Here’s a breezy saunter through the key moments in the life of the ‘most Honda’ models of all…

Roger Etcell • The former Honda UK boss explains how he saved the VFR750 from being canned, and how he sold an NR750 for two bags of cash…

Feel the force • Once the Honda VFR400R gets it claws in you, there’s no going back – just ask serial NC24 restorer Myles Lubbock

Why the RC30 is so special • Honda are famous for V4s but their VFR750R RC30 is the most famous of all. Professor of mechanical engineering Jamie Turner explores what makes it so exceptional

Just what is it about V4s?

Simply superb • Only got room for one modern classic in your garage? There are so many reasons why the Honda VFR800Fi is the one…

MODEL HISTORY

Which to buy, what to...