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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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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Riding a 1903 Quadrant Banking Tricycle, Geoff Wheeler took the Len Wills Trophy for the best performance on a veteran machine at this year’s Vintage Motor Cycle Club Banbury Run on Sunday, June 19. Awards were as follows:- Bill Moore Trophy (rider nearest allotted time schedule at one or more checks, having gained a gold…
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This year’s Norton Owners’ Club Festival included a 30-mile ride around the New Forest area before converging on the Sammy Miller Museum, where more than 200 bikes had gathered by noon on Saturday, July 2. Making a fabulous display, members’ machines were joined by Norton Rotary legend Brian Crighton with his CR 700P race bikes,…
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A single-owner collection of seventeen iconic Japanese classic motorcycles spanning the 1980s and 1990s are headed for Bonhams Harrogate sale, taking place November 12… “Stripped and rebuilt to factory standard, with original parts carefully sourced from all over the world, the collection is a great example of an enthusiast’s passion for collecting and restoration,” said…
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Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Editor Bert Simmonds was rather taken at Stafford by Stuart Newton’s tucked-out-of-the-way stand at the show and its amazing wares… Two bikes were very special indeed: one was a lovely race Honda RC45 which is apparently an ex-David Jefferies and Richard ‘Milky’ Quayle machine. So it’s probably the old Medd sponsored machine…
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