Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics
This is the magazine dedicated to the buying, riding and rebuilding of the later classics and Japanese machines. Subscribe here.
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If you love Suzukis and are heading for the CMM Stafford Show this October, boy are you in for a treat. Over the weekend of October 15-16, the 23rd Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show will take place, with its normal smorgasbord of motorcycling brilliance, but this year there’s more than an added dash of…
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Classic bikes and classic racers will again feature heavily in this year’s British MotoGP event. Double world champ and former Stafford Show special guest Graeme Crosby will be at the British MotoGP this September (1-4) as the affable Kiwi is taking part in a star-studded parade by former 500cc legends. He will be joined by…
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A biking backpack that doesn’t intrude on your riding is a thing of pure joy. Decent shoulder and waist straps with padding and a chest strap means it is easily 300-mile comfortable, if not overloaded with parts from that autojumble. Reflective detailing aids night-time safety, two external pockets for oddments or a drink, grab handles…
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Laser Tools have just added a number of valve shim tools to its growing range of motorcycle maintenance tools. These tools are indispensable when carrying out adjustment or overhaul of engine valves with solid shim-type adjustment. The Tappet Shim Pliers (part number 6489) are used to grip the shim to allow easy removal by gripping…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same, so the saying goes. Which begs this month’s question: ‘are retro bikes good for our hobby?’ As in, should we applaud the pale imitations of the bikes of yesteryear that we love so much? As is usual with this rhetorical question, I already have my…
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The East Sussex section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club presented a fine selection of machinery at a Roaring Twenties Day in Bexhill-on-Sea recently, with motorcycles around the VMCC stand including a period 1925 James, 1926 Scott Flyer, 1935 Brough 11.50 and immaculate 1947 Norton ES2. The best crowd-puller, however, was a 1947 BSA M20…
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Les Orme tells how, many years after the event, he managed to return the favour to a Norton Navigator that had rescued him from a breakdown crisis in France. My motorcycling days started in 1959, at the age of 15, when friends Keith Pitcher, Pete Evans and I bought an old non-running rigid rear-end BSA…
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Records were broken during the Girder Fork & Classic Motorcycle Club’s 20th anniversary year when 1300 visitors – a big increase over last year’s 850 – supported the club’s Big Bike Sunday charity event at Skipton Auction Mart on June 26. In sweltering sunshine, 175 machines were entered in seven classes – vintage, pre-1965, post-1965,…
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