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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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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The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic show will warm your cockles in January. This show traditionally gives the year a classic kick-start, taking place as it does over the weekend of January 3-4… Based at the Newark Showground, it will give you plenty of opportunity to walk off all those mince pies, thanks…
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New for 2015, the Watsonian GT4 is a contemporary sports touring sidecar. Based on the popular RX4 bodyshell, the original 5-spoke 13″ alloy wheel is replaced with a 15″ split rim style item, fitted with a 205/50 R15 sports profile tyre… The mudguard also gets a makeover, updated to a minimalist hugger-style with combined LED…
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