In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Classic Bike (UK)

• Startline
  June 1987, World 500cc Motocross GP Round Seven, Ponte a Egola, Italy
• Seductive stroker
  This 1986 Yamaha RD500LC is up for auction in February. With a wad of history and a current MoT suggesting recent use, it could make spring something to look forward to…
• ‘If I had £10,000…’
  Dougie Lampkin MBE, Master of Trials (world champ seven times, indoor champ five times) ponders how he’d spend an imaginary ten grand in a brown envelope
• 12 bikes you can buy
  Gez Kane is always on the lookout for the tastiest bikes on sale. Here’s what he’s spotted for sale this month – there must be something below to tempt you…
• MZ 250cc models
  Quirky, affordable and plain good fun. MZ Riders Club chairman Andy Binns shines a light on why you need an MZ250 in your life
• 12 bikes that sold
  Auction prices, live and online, provide a genuine guide to values. Gez Kane selects the most desirable and revealing bikes that were sold over the last last month..
• Honda sohc fours
  The archetypal ‘Universal Japanese Motorcycle’. But how are prices faring? Here’s a cross-section of models sold in the last three months
• Time for a TZ?
  UK’s biggest collection of Yamaha proddie racers for sale
• Tommy Robb 1934-2024
  Former Honda works rider and TT winner has died, aged 90
• Rescued, revived & ridden
  The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride
• 10,481 MILES, THREE REAR TYRES, 35 PINTS OF OIL
  All that – along with five tyres – is what John King’s 1969 Triumph Trident went through during their epic 72-day ride around Australia
• A GRITTY OLD GIRL
  John King tells us how he prepped his Trident and reveals how it stood up to the challenge of a 10,000-mile-plus trip. Surely something went wrong?
• Right move
  David Allen decided to buy this Moto Guzzi Le Mans MkI rather than a Jota; 47 years later, he’s restored it – and happier than ever with his choice
• Michael Rutter
  He grew up in race paddocks, won 29 British Superbike races, 14 North West 200s and seven TTs. But why does Michael Rutter think Mick Doohan is a ‘complete prick’?
• MICHAEL RUTTER
  35 years of racing success
• Norton P11
  When the big names of the British bike industry amalgamated, it didn’t take long before cross-breeding took place. This month, our Rick tries out one of Norton’s more desirable desert sled hybrids
• ‘I had a decent set of balls on me and les s up the top’
  Gritty, fun-loving Aussie Rob Phillis tells us how he challenged for the World Superbike title aboard a dog-slow Kawasaki ZX750R, missed out on Carl Fogarty’s Ducati deal, turned down a TT ride worth big money and ended up with the nickname ‘Syphilis’
• BIG RED ZED
  Kawasaki’s GPz1100 was the last of the line of big, fast air-cooled fours stretching back to the Z1 in 1972. It can still set pulses racing today
• ‘It’s morphed into my race HQ’
  Ian Martin’s workshop started life as a place to store his growing collection of road bikes. Then he caught the racing bug – and since then it’s gradually transformed into the place where race-winning RC30s are born
• What my bikes taught me
  Ian Martin’s top two-wheeled teachers
• Useful things
  Just some of the essential items in Ian’s workshop
• Getting to the bottom of it…
  With his BSA Bantam in need of welding work, Hugo takes a trip to Rick’s workshop for a crash course on the MIG
• Make your brakes bite
  We take stopping for granted… until we can’t. Modern traffic can stop alarmingly quickly and classic brakes need to be on top form – here are some tips to help pull you up
• Petrol What you need to know
  Modern fuel is a giddy mix of petrol, ethanol and additives. But how does it all affect your classic bike?
• Fettling cartridge forks
  Spending a few quid on sorting suspension is more worthwhile than paying out much more money on performance enhancements. Alan Seeley shows you how to make the most of what you have
• BMW meltdown prevention
  BMW twins from the 1970s are solid motorcycles – but as they get older, they can develop alarming pyrotechnical tendencies. Here’s why, and how to stop it
• Seventeen more steps to straightening a Sunbeam
  After getting his Sunbeam Model 9’s crash-damaged frame straight last month, Rick felt confident to tackle sorting out the rest of the bike – but is it really that simple?
• Let’s get this whole thing straight…
  Rick rounds up the latest state of affairs with the Sunbeam – and what’s left to get sorted
• Consistently Cali
  This ditch-recovered Guzzi has been a bulletproof Euro-touring mount for decades