August 2016

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Classic Bike Guide

Your guide to buying, running and owning a classic bike. Broad minded with a practical twist.

CLASSIC BIKE GUIDE || CONTENTS

006 NEWS

Bikes, bits for bikes, that kind of thing

008 SUBSCRIBE!
Save money, get the magazine early.
Thrills undiluted. Excitement unlimited

010 BSA OWNERS’ DAY
We have no idea what a collective
noun for BSA owners is…

014 VINTAGE EVENTS
Two big ones, lots of bikes,
folk riding bikes

022 GET DRESSED!
Some decently groovy bike gear here

026 YAMAHA SR500
Stripped of everything superfluous

032 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD
One of those really nice twins

038 BMW R50S
Monochrome magnificence

042 LETTERS
So we made more room this month

044 PAUL D’ORLÉANS
The unappreciated art of luggage

046 MARK WILLIAMS
Mark’s sparks fail to fly

048 PAUL MILES
Harleys, sporty and classic. No, really…

052 BSA ROCKET 3
Build your own, then. From bits

060 MOTO GUZZI STORNELLO
A most recent, and indeed
remarkable, twin

074 AJS CAFÉ SINGLE
Roadster, racer, café
racer. All life is here

082 BRITISH CLASSIC BIKE GUIDE
With a truly remarkable selection of
the prices real bikes were sold for

096 BRAKE CALIPER OVERHAUL
Brakes don’t work? Time to fix that

104 KAWASAKI GPZ500
Rebuilt, repaired, restored. An
everyday tale of sprucing and fettling

110 READER ADS
Send us bargains. We need many
more bargains. We do, we really do…

129 INK WHEELS
Hot Triton, by Ian Cater

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