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

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Issue #551 of Classic Bike was brought to you…

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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

Big-block bargain • Classic lines, robust engineering, a smear of modern useability and plenty of traditional Guzzi character. We can definitely see this V10 Centauro Sport delivering enjoyment…

‘If I had £10,000…’ • Jeff Turner is Marketing Manager for Yamaha and was a key member of endurance legends Team Bike in the ’80s. Here’s how he’d blow a £10k gift

12 bikes you can buy • Gez Kane trawls the bikes for sale to give you his pick from auctions, private sales and specialist classic dealers – your perfect classic might just be here…

AMC big singles • AJS and Matchless Owners Club president Andrew Stevens explains why you need an AMC heavyweight single throbbing its way into your life

12 bikes that sold • From a quarter-million-pound-plus project bike to a cheap and cheerful twinshock trials iron for well under a grand, Gez Kane lifts the lid on recent standout sales and prices

Kawasaki Zeds • Air-cooled Z-series Kawasaki fours have always managed to stir the soul. Here’s how much you might have to shell out to get yours stirred…

Rare police bike found • Yes, that does say ‘Norton Yamaha’ – and you can own this rare joint-factory production

What’s new

Cheerio Commando • Norton’s flash new range has no room for air-cooled twins

£73,700 for an XT500!

Stafford Show • Covering the weekend of October 11-12, CB headed along to see the fresh restorations and lovingly prepared exhibits, dig out unusual bikes and fuss around the stands

Diary dates…

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

On sale December 17 • Subscribe at greatmagazines.co.uk/classicbike

Taking it to the MAX • A certain post-apocalyptic film is responsible for Trevor Slocombe’s Kawasaki obsession – and his meticulous rebuild of this rare one-year-only GPz750R1

Trev’s top three tools

Darren Dixon • He won two world sidecar titles, British Superbikes and at one point seemed to be racing everything in the paddock. How on earth do you race a 250 GP bike, superbike and outfit on the same day?

1927 Brough Superior SS100 • Brough Superior’s flagship celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2025. Most of these collectors’ items have been bought, sold, modified, restored and re-restored many times… but not this one

Why it hasn’t been restored

Twin tearaways •...