Classic Bike Hub UK

In a recent issue of RealClassic magazine, reader Roger Bibbings asked for nominations for the perfect modern motorcycle to suit classic bike riders. And lots of people answered him… Roger’s Quandary I am now 58 years old and have been riding motorcycles (over 45 different machines) almost every day since February 1965, covering somewhere towards…

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That’s no way to treat a classic bike! John Kane revisits a simple land before heroes emerged from the back streets… In 1971 choppers were becoming fashionable in Britain. Lots of 15 year-olds like me had Easy Rider posters on their walls. Peter Fonda and the other one (Dennis Hopper) were the epitome of cool…

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In the heyday of the British bike industry, everyone had heard of (or bought a bike from) Pride and Clarke in London’s Stockwell Road. Our readers remember them… In the late 1950s you might have been browsing at Pride and Clarke’s showroom, considering the purchase of a BSA Golden Flash for £265.14.5d, or perhaps a…

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Great Things Are Afoot. Is Frank Westworth really going to sell a classic bike? Or even two classic bikes? Stranger things have happened. But not many… It’s all true. Although I hate selling bikes, and although I am absolutely no use at all when bikes need to be sold, I am going to change things…

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Want to know what an Owners’ Club is really like? A65Bill dishes the dirt with the inside story of the BSA Owners’ Club recent AGM… The issue of owners’ clubs regularly appears on the RC Message Board and tends to polarise views. It is clear from some comments that opinions are often (mis)informed by third…

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Did you know that lots and lots of the very best, British-built AJS and Matchless motorcycles were exported to the USA? It came as a surprise to Frank Westworth… Well? Did you? Did you know that AMC transported a vast proportion of their bikes to the colonies? For years and years and years, I had…

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You might not want to rebuild your classic bike to standard spec, but sometimes it helps if someone else has. Karl Bentley’s BSA A50 may have been modified. Or not. Who knows? Okay, I’ll admit it straight away, I was wrong. There you are, I’ve apologised and I will never say mean and nasty things…

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Art for art’s sake; isn’t that what they say? A devoted student of the art of motorcycling, Frank Westworth has long been a fan of old adverts… Old bike ads are great. If you’re a fan of the bikes featured in them, then they are a reminder of how smart they could look when the…

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A famous motoring writer and a few Matchless motorcycles appear in this month’s musings, but mainly Frank Westworth mourns the troubles of a roadside friend… People can be peculiar. There is an old saw about an optimist being a soul whose cup is always half full, while a pessimist will always see it as half…

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Jim Peace has made many friends on his motorcycling travels. Meet Nebraska, the bug… Riding a motorbike in America is no more dangerous than anywhere else, but there is one hazard that you never see mentioned in any riders manuals. Bugs. I’m not talking about little buzzy things here, like midges or mosquitoes; American bugs…

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