June 2007

7 BIFFA?S BASEMENT
More from the alternative view of life in The Basement as listmania hits town.

8 WAS BIGGER BETTER?
You?d better read Keith Fryer?s tale of the factory-stretched BSA A70 to find out.

16 WE WERE THERE
?Don?t put your daughter on the stage...? goes the old music hall song. Luckily Uncle Jim isn?t our daughter so, on the stage at the Classic MotorCycle Show he went. Meanwhile, Biffa, Keith Fryer and Andrew Wilson scoured the halls for bargains.

23 HOW TO...
...service those carbs. Phil Mather has a look at the most maligned part of the bike. Go on, admit it, you?ve fiddled with the carb and made the bike worse.

28 RESPONSE
It always amazes me the response we get to all sorts of things in CBG. Something else that amazes me is our postie here remains cheerful... at least up until the third sack of mail.

33 BY INVITATION ONLY...
Our monthly guest column spot, where we persuade some unsuspecting ?name? to pen us a few words about what makes their personal engines tickover. This month we caught Mike Jackson on a good day.

35 MOVING SWIFTLY ON
For those of us who fall foul of machines designed to help us and make life easy. Andrew Wilson says ?you?re not alone.?

38 NEW OLD STOCK
It?s certainly different... Keith Fryer checks out a modern take on an old classic.

48 WE WERE THERE
CBG heads for Worcestershire and the legendary Red Marley Hill Climb. Why? Well, to get to the top of course.

52 WE WERE THERE
Uncle Jim heads to the show with the longest title in the world... probably.

54 YOUR CLASSIC
This is your chance to earn a few folding restoration coupons. Simply tell us all about your project and when we print it you?ve a start for the next one.

58 SUPER NOVA
Stretching the BSA/Triumph triple engine has been a popular pastime for quite a few years and it makes for quite a bit more grunt. Nigel C blasts into orbit.

68 BRAND NEW
Yes, a brand new Vincent V-twin, ridden exclusively by our exclusive gent, J Reynolds Esq.

76 PLUGS AND LEADS
We get loads of leads, and loads of things to plug so, we thought, let?s put them in ?plugs and leads?. Fairly obvious when you think about it.

82 PRODUCTS, PRODUCTS
Yes, there is a lot of good stuff out there to help your classic life run smoothly. This is where we tell you about them, so long as we?re told in the first place.

84 WE WERE THERE
We were on the beach... well quite close to it anyway... which beach? Daytona Beach with Bob Clarke.

88 WE WERE THERE
It hardly seems a moment since Biffa was heading up to Kinlochleven to make his mark on the boulders of Scotland. Here he is, off again.

90 FREE ADS
Yes, I know this is the real reason you?re buying this magazine, to tell the truth, I?m keen to have a shufty through them myself.

108 SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE
Everything you need to know about making sure your copy of the world?s best classic magazine drops onto your door mat asap each month.

110 LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE
Got an event on? Let us know and we?ll try and get it in here. If we don?t know then we can?t put it in... so come on, meet us half way... tell us it?s on.

112 CLASSIC CLUB GUIDE
There are millions of clubs out there, all dealing with some form of classic motorcycle or another. We?ll get you in somehow.

122 CLASSIC BUYING GUIDE
We?ve all read the advert descriptions, but what do they really mean? Nick Ward enlightens us...