Classic Bike Hub UK

With the parts back from the chromers, Kim Henry starts rebuilding his Real Classic Kawasaki. But will it start? I discovered that it’s a wise idea to remove wheel bearings before the polishing process because mine came back fairly choked up with compound and after cleaning them out I discovered they were stuffed. It’s a…

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“I thought that restoring something old may be what I needed” said Kim Henry, before starting the rebuild of his Real Classic Kawasaki… About 12 years ago I noticed an ad in the local newspaper to sell a BSA 650 look alike that didn’t cost as much as the real thing. I was talking to…

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It was big. Really big. Really extremely big for the 1980s. Steve The Toast debates the virtues of blunderbuss motorcycling and Kawasaki’s classic six-cylinder machine… If anyone ever tells you that they have never made a mistake, you would be relatively safe to draw the conclusion that they have never made anything, as the saying…

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Easy to work on, good handling, but infested with an electrical gremlin. Is Mark White really talking about a Kawasaki Zed One? What’s one of the commonly-held attributes which unites classic bike owners, no matter what sort of classic they ride? It has to be pride of ownership, and Mark White of Wiltshire is certainly…

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What makes your dream bike so special? Andrew Peek’s first Zed One was too loud and too fast — and too good to be true. Here’s how he met his ultimate streetbike… It all started for me one Christmas when, as a child, I received my first book about motorcycles. The book featured all different…

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Jonny Wellard wants to know if his Kawasaki W650 is groovy and fab, or just grubby and sad. People ask him; ‘what’s the point of having one of those when you could buy the real thing?’ And he has an answer for them! That’s the nub of the issue isn’t it — Kodak or Constable?…

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Three decades ago, Ted Simon rode a Triumph Tiger some 63,000 miles through 54 countries on a journey which took four years. Does the story still seem relevant today?… All too often a book that is trumpeted as a ‘must read’ proves to be at best a let down or at worst a crashing disappointment.…

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In 1990, a one-man-band race team in New Zealand attempted to take on the rest of the world in the battle of the twins series. The Britten V1000 was the result, and this DVD tells the story of the bike and the man behind it… John Britten was a creative and talented engineer, a New…

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Another new-old bike hits the street, using a familiar Rotax engine in a classic-shaped chassis. Rowena Hoseason tells us all about it… There is no doubt that there’s a huge European market for a middleweight single-cylinder streetbike. That’s the market which all but kept BMW afloat when their Boxers were out of fashion; BMW sold…

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Which classic bike would you take to the Isle of Man TT races? Phil Speakman’s 46 year old stroker saved the day – and even saw some high speed action on Mad Sunday… Impotent fury isn’t a particularly enjoyable experience, but to have it in front of a queue of uncaring Post Office customers who…

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