November / December 2024

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Classic Racer magazine celebrates the greatest racers and racing motorcycles in history, where motorcycle-racing legends truly live on.

Classic Racer magazine covers everything from tests of historic racing machinery, written by those who rode them, to tales of the heroes who made the sport great.

With detailed bike profiles we take you so close to your favourite classic bikes you can actually smell the Castrol R, and with the world’s finest archive at the disposal of an editorial team who live and breathe the sport, the only way you’ll get any closer to the action will be to put on your leathers.

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GREAT BRITTEN!

John Britten’s amazing home-brewed V-twin racers were often the class of the field when it came to outright grunt and power… We ask the riders of these beautiful machines what made them tick.

YAMAHA YZR500

Alan Cathcart rides one of the last two-stroke V4 500cc GP machines from Yamaha – the OWK6 – a bike that took the manufacturer’s championship for the Japanese factory during the 2000 season.

A TALE OF TWO BIKES

John Moulton recalls his time doing a regular road and race column in a local newspaper and the happenings at the 10 lap production TT of 1975, which featured two bikes very familiar to him.

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SUPERSTITIOUS RACERS

Would you race with the number 13 on the front of your bike? Would you wear lucky pants? Would you wash them? Do you put your left boot on before the right? We examine the many racing superstitions and habits of racers from years gone by.

subscription to Classic Racer magazine means you can enjoy all of the above, plus plenty of other benefits, such as making a major saving on the cover price and FREE postage.


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