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  • December’s Classic Bike Guide on sale

    December’s Classic Bike Guide on sale

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    New Brough Superior, review and pics, Bonneville Broughs, plus Japanese cafe racers, Panther Model 120, winter lay up tips, the usual archive material and columnists and the CBG buyer’s guide: British 650s. On sale now!

  • Meteor sidecar back in production

    Meteor sidecar back in production

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    Watsonian relaunched its Meteor sidecar at this year’s Motorcycle Live show, more than sixty years after production of the original version ceased…

  • Look at life: 1960s scrambling

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    Atmospheric look at the rising popularity of scrambling during the sixties, complete with behind-the-scenes footage at the Greeves factory. Eamonn Andrews narrates….

  • Bling and Heaven at Telford

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    Have you gone to town on your twinshock or Evo? If so then Alan Wright wants your bike at Telford. The Bling and Heaven at the Twin Shock, Classic & Road Racing Show is open to all makes with any amount of modification…

  • Yamaha TZ750

    Yamaha TZ750

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    Between testing road bikes in the 1970s and 80s, John Nutting was occasionally invited to try racing machines, such as Yamaha’s stunning TZ750 two-stroke four. It was a sobering experience…

  • Future classics

    Future classics

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    It’s interesting to see what bikes are becoming modern classics and what bikes people are beginning to restore. Last month’s Showstopper was a 1986 Kawasaki GPz1000RX and this is its successor the ZX-10…

  • VMCC CEO to step down at end of year

    VMCC CEO to step down at end of year

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    Vintage Motor Cycle Club CEO James Hewing will step down from his role at the end of this year. James has been at the helm of the VMCC for nine years and is a regular and popular visitor at the classic bike shows…

  • Hot exhausts from Higgspeed

    Hot exhausts from Higgspeed

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    That legend from the tuning world Higgspeed is now producing a range of gorgeous pipes with modern-looking end-cans for your two-stroke…

  • Moto memories: 1971 British 500cc MX championship

    Moto memories: 1971 British 500cc MX championship

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    On the hottest day of the year so far in the UK, Swede Ake Jonsson tackled the 1971 British 500cc MX championship at Farleigh Castle in Wiltshire with grit and determination to blow the series wide open…

  • Project Honda NC30

    Project Honda NC30

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    Classic Motorcycle Mechanics photographer Joe Dick here is a V4-lover… but unfortunately he stacked his beloved NC30 and has had to do an eBay sweep to get the requisite parts to build his baby back to its best. What could go right?

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