Modern slant on classic racing. Legendary bikes and the courageous, talented heroes that mattered then and still matter now.
Classic Racer magazine celebrates the greatest racers and racing motorcycles in history, where motorcycle-racing legends truly live on.
Classic Racer magazine covers everything from tests of historic racing machinery, written by those who rode them, to tales of the heroes who made the sport great.
With detailed bike profiles we take you so close to your favourite classic bikes you can actually smell the Castrol R, and with the world’s finest archive at the disposal of an editorial team who live and breathe the sport, the only way you’ll get any closer to the action will be to put on your leathers. In the January/February issue of Classic Racer magazine:
Iconic Metal: Gilera 500/4
Beautiful and long-lived, the Gilera 500/4 raced from1948 through to the end of 1966 taking six rider and six constructor’s championships along the way. Enjoy this photographic record of one legendary machine.
‘I dream of Sheenie’
Stuart Barker is a lucky man. From drawing pictures of Barry Sheene’s XR45when bored at school he’s only gone and got himself a ride on it... Oh, and he’s even allowed a pop on Kevin Schwantz’s XR84 from 1994, too. The git.
Yamaha YZF-R6
Back in 1999, Yamaha developed a supersport machine like no other: the track focused R6. In 2021 it effectively disappears from Yamaha’s range. Here’s Alan Cathcart’s ride on the World Supersport contender.
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