Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Dedicated to the later classics and Japanese machines, Classic Motorcycle Mechanics has it all. Now 116 pages of road tests, rebuild guides, 'Street Specials' reviews and much much more... Staff Bikes - Classic Motorcycle Mechanics is the only magazine that "Buys its own bikes, rebuilds 'em and rides 'em".

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Big, beautiful, poised and practical!

Sheene 1975

cmm Stuff • The latest riding kit, top tools, tyres, retro clothing and more!

cmm Tested • Riding kitworn, tools twirled & tyres turned

SEE OLD KING COLE!

Keith at the pub!

LANGEN TURBO COMING…

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Scooperman! • The sunny side of the classic world with the VJMC’s Steve Cooper

HAIRY BIKER MACHINE AUCTION

Cold War Wheels needs YOU!

cmm events • Wanna get into CMM’s new events section? Then contact us at: BSimmonds@mortons.co.uk. You may even become ‘Event of the Month’!

FEED BACK • Post to Mechanics, PO Box 99, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6LZ or email your pictures to editorial@classicmechanics.com

Show us yours • We want to see YOUR pride and joy in our pages, so you can share what you ride and what you restore/build with fellow readers. Email your hi-res shots to bsimmonds@mortons.co.uk or mail in some photos at the address at the front of the mag. Let us know what you’ve done, how you’ve done it and send before and after shots if you can. Do get in touch – because the best of the month gets a free T-shirt!

The way wewere… • Send us your nostalgic snaps of you back in the day with your steed! Either send to me at bsimmonds@mortons.co.uk or via our vibrant Facebook page. C’mon, we’ll send you a T-shirt if you are our first pick!

MT-PROMISES! • Andy Bolas rides a pair of lovely Yamaha MT-350 YPVS specials that promise much and which both deliver in spades!

LUCKY FOR SOME • Thirteen wasn’t quite the lucky number it should have been for Honda in the noughties, but Bertie Simmonds makes a case for the big, brash CB1300.

Honda CB1300 Family Tree

Big Bert’s Big CB1300

Chop-sticks! • Take omeone alook at one of Japan’s first, purpose-built, metric chop/cruisers: the Yamaha XV Virago family was mighty popular in its time, and the XV1100 Virago was the daddy of them all and people loved ’em.

The Yamaha V-twin family

The owner’s view by Ron Steiger

DUCATI 748

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Hand jobs… • Ralph Ferrand works with tools all day long – he sells them too at bikerstoolbox.co.uk so he knows what works.

Q&A • Our very own wizened sages, Messrs Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper, are here to answer all of your woes, be they mechanical or spiritual. Every month we will be giving advice, as well as some general tips. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, too.

Au revoir, SS50! • It lives! Kev’s little (but big-bore) 1969 Honda SS50 is chuffing along under its own steam for the first time in at least 15 years.

Bay-watch* • Kev Raymond keeps his eye on the choppy waters of the classic world to see if any projects, donors and bargains are out there worthy of being dragged out of the surf for some mouth-to-mouth…

SUZUKI TC120 • If you’re wanting something that little bit different then Suzuki’s super-cute TC120 is always worth a look.

No Shows & Viable TC’s

What to buy and how much to pay

An extended brake! • After almost a year of gathering dust, Project Slabby 3 is being worked on again. Finally we rebuilt the calipers, sorted the rotors and got a set of correct carburettors…

Fun for singles! • CMM reader Richard Farnish continues with his Yamaha SR500 refurbishment. What’s happening this time?

SHOW US YER SHED! IN CONJUNCTION...