Retrobike

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

SALT SHAKER • Brimming with custom features and finished to a show bike standard, Adrian Braun’s airhead BMW is also Australia’s fastest

Skrunkwerks

Retro Specs

NORCATI • A leaky Triumph engine in a Norton frame just wasn’t going to cut it for Sydney’s Darren Hill, so he went for a Ducati motor instead

Featherbedding

Retro Specs

EURO THRASH • Europe’s fastest vintage race bikes live to fly another day at historic Spa-Francorchamps

Spa for Bikes

THE POWER OF ONE • In Brisbane, Garth Allison transforms a neglected pile of junk into a handcrafted work of art

Plastic Maggots

Retro Specs

JUMBO JET • The heavyweight Münch Mammoth was the most powerful and expensive bike of its day

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SLOW Pokes • What postie bikes lack in power, they make up for with character, style and numbers

Little Red

10 Reasons To Ride A Postie

El Duderino • Inspired by the cult movie The Big Lebowski, Brisbane’s Smoked Garage builds a chopper worthy of The Dude

Retro Specs

HORSES for CORSER • Aussie legend delivers BMW’s first win at the Goodwood Revival

Rider Reviver

GOING COMMANDO • A classic Norton is stripped to its underwear and rebuilt as a modern cafe racer

Best of British

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SQUIRT IN THE DIRT • Brisbane riders flock to Mick Doohan Raceway for Ellaspede’s Dust Hustle

Community Spirit

Australian story • A chance Sydney friendship blossoms into a tasty British classic

God Of Thunder

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AGAINST THE ODDS • An unknown C-grader on a street-registered drag bike wins Australia’s biggest Superbike race

Book ’em, Darryl

PUPPY LOVE • Learner-legal 250 that sounds as good as it looks

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BUSH TRACKERS • A pair of Triumphs built for the high country

Unit vs Pre-Unit

ON ANY SUNDAY • Social Pages

McIlwraith HOMESICK HIGHWAY