Author: Classic Bike Hub UK

The Classic Bike Hub gives you news, views, features and reviews from the UK’s biggest classic motorcycle magazines. It is the essential website and app for any classic motorcycle lover. From the sump to the handlebars, we cover everything from pre-war and off-road machines all the way to modern classics. Collating content from Classic Bike Guide, The Classic MotoryCycle, Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, Old Bike Mart, Classic Racer, RealClassic and Classic Dirt Bike, there is no other place for classic bike news, archives and reference material.

Forward Planning

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Classic Trackdays – A Beginner’s Guide Fresh from surviving the Morini Riders’ Club outing at Cadwell Park, Martin Gelder presents a first timer’s guide to classic bike trackdays. The most fun you can have with your leathers on? If you own an old bike with even the slightest leaning towards sporting prowess, you need to do a classic trackday of…
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Safety First!

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Jim Peace remembers when the warnings on cigarette packets had nothing at all to do with smoking… Many years ago, when almost everybody smoked, cigarette manufacturers would try to encourage brand loyalty by enclosing one or two picture cards in the packs. These came in sets of fifty so you had to smoke a lot of fags to get a…
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FLW 12: Chequebook Restorations

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We all sneer at chequebook restorers; where’s the skill in writing a cheque? Where’s the achievement? Frank Westworth contemplates the results of his first chequebook restoration… We all know one when we see one. They stand out. They gleam in an unnatural manner. Their paint is a yard deep, their chrome is more mirror-perfect than any mirror. The invisible insides…
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Buyers Eye

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Richard Jones goes browsing through the classic bikes on offer at Pembrokeshire Classics in south Wales. He encounters a couple of Villiers two-strokes, an Ariel Arrow, a really rare Laverda Jarama and even a Beezer bobber… Mrs Jones and I decided that a short holiday was in order and decided to go to the land of the gods. Rather than…
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Bruce Pollard

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One of life’s genuine real classic riders rode over the horizon in early 2011. Jim Reynolds pays tribute to him… Bruce Pollard and the Big 4 Norton he’d owned since 1972 were inseparable friends. When hundreds of his bike-riding friends gathered to say goodbye to Bruce in May 2011, that faithful old rigid framed 60 year old sat in the…
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