Retro & Classic Bike Enthusiast is a collector’s magazine for true enthusiasts from motorcycle restorers and retro bike owners to businesses that service the industry. This technical guide focuses purely on retro and classic motorcycling content but more importantly the bikes themselves not just the lifestyle. Every issue is packed full of content keeping readers up to date with Club listings, new products and retro bike industry news, as well as showing off its favourite workshops in the My Shop feature, tips on restoration and engine building, staff bike rebuilds and tyre size and buyer’s guides. Perfect for any truly passionate and enthusiastic retro bike fanatics.
G'DAY WITH GEOFF SEDDON • The first half of the 1970s was an amazing period for bike development
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TWINS • If one is good, two is better
HOG SLAYER
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The Flying KIWI • Graeme Crosby’s 1980 Yoshimura XR69 Formula One bike was the inspiration for this stove-hot McIntosh street racer
Original Isn’t Always Best
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THUNDER GROUND • The Formula 750 class of 1972 makes a glorious racket at the 2019 Members’ Meeting at Goodwood
HOT WATER BOTTLE • An immaculately-restored Suzuki GT750 humbles the late-model stuff at Sydney Dragway
Put The Kettle On
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THE FLYING ’57 • Is it a scrambler? A bobber or tracker? None of the above, says Italian maestro Christian Moretti
Milano Milestones
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LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE • Forget your trackers and scramblers, trials bikes are the new cool
Trials By Numbers
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CUTTING LOOSE • It’s dirt track, Jim, but not as we know it
TRIPLE TREAT • From Perth, a cool mild-custom tracker with a lusty three-cylinder engine hits all our buttons
Three For The Road
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LONE WOLF • The 1978 V6 Laverda is regarded by many as the pinnacle of Italian Post-Classic motorcycle engineering
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LIFE’S A BEACH • Heavy rain couldn’t dampen spirits at the Rattletrap beach sprints on the NSW mid-north coast
RUNNING OF THE Bull • From Orange, a cafe racer with the soul of a Bultaco and the performance of a Kawasaki
El Seizo
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FRONT WHEEL DIVE • The Megola was the answer to an engineering question no-one ever asked
BACK ON TRACK • Older bikes relive the glory of times long past at Victoria’s premier motorcycle festival
THE FLYING ANZANI • An Aussie-made replica of a British bike built nearly 100 years ago runs 250km/h with more to come
Rusty’s First Love
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ON ANY SUNDAY Social Pages
Retro STYLE
HERE’S TO COUNTRY PUBS