Old Bike Australasia

Old Bike magazine is a must for those who ride as well as the dedicated enthusiast and rebuilder, covering everything from Vintage to early 1980s bikes - marvel at the restoration of machines that could still sit proudly on the showroom floor. Each issue brings you the latest news and results from recent events, race reports and Rally Roundup, along with new and old bike news and reviews, readers letters, Club Directory, What’s On and much, much more.

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Old Bike Australasia

RANT & RAVE • Letters to the Editor

AGAINST THE GRAIN 1983 Honda CX650 Eurosport • There’s a particular kind of madness that takes hold when you grow up somewhere the Atlantic hammers the coast and the roads twist like they're trying to escape. For one young builder, that place was Spiddal, a small town on the west coast of Ireland just outside Galway. It’s where he bought his first motorcycle, where he first picked up a spanner, and where the itch that would eventually become this remarkable CX650E first started to bite.

Pirelli Diablo Powercruiser: Sporty DNA Meets the Cruiser Life

Building a Honda CBX Restomod: Where Grinder Sparks Meet Electric Blue • With part one’s dreaming, scheming and hard assessment now behind me, it was finally time to trade the notepad for the grinder and turn that bare CBX frame into something real - mocking up the front end, fabricating an under-seat exhaust, building a battery box from scratch, and giving the old girl’s engine a fresh coat of electric blue.

Calling All Marston Sunbeam Owners

All British Day Returns for its 43rd Year

Amaroo Park Celebrations & Consolidation

Eight Years Of Espresso & Italians

Convict Stock

Cycle World Gone

Kangaroos End the 24-year Drought in Warsaw

Beaut Day for a Bimble Part 1

UNDER THE CHEQUERED FLAG

GOOD GEAR The Alezane Urban Nomad Messenger Mk I • A Bag That Rides as Hard as You Do

VELOCE MOTORCYCLES A FAMILY CONCERN • The story of Veloce begins with one man, Johannes Gutgemann who emigrated to the English Midlands from his native Germany in 1876. He was married in 1884 to a local lady, and they went on to have 5 children who all seemed to find a place in the Veloce business history. Johannes was an astute businessman who tapped into the local manufacturing community beginning his journey with pharmaceuticals, then cycle parts, through to the birth and manufacture of Veloce and then Velocette motorcycles.

THE SUPERBIKE OF ITS ERA

Dave Burgess THE THINKING MAN’S CHAMPION • HOW DAVE BURGESS CONQUERED AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE RACING

THE 50-YEAR RIDE HOME • A 1957 NORTON DOMINATOR 88, BOXED AWAY FOR HALF A CENTURY, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE BY FOUR SONS & REMEMBERED BY THE FATHER WHO ONCE RODE IT.

HONDA CR93 The Jewel in the Crown • From its introduction in 1962, Honda’s brilliant and expensive CR93 twin transformed the ailing 125cc class, which had struggled along with a motley bunch of home-tuned BSA Bantams and a few priceless and ageing MV Agustas and Ducatis. It also helped forge many successful careers.

CUSTOM VMAX 1200 KELPI CUSTOMS TAMES THE STRAIGHT-LINE BEAST • WHEN THE YAMAHA VMAX LANDED IN 1985, IT HIT THE MOTORCYCLE WORLD LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN. NOTHING ELSE LOOKED LIKE IT. NOTHING ELSE FELT LIKE IT.

1961 Mickleson/Cole Matchless G12 800cc Outfit THE MATCHY • This is the story of New Zealand’s most successful Pre-63 Classic Racing sidecar, Neville Mickleson and Graeme Cole’s, G12 Matchless outfit. From the outset the “Matchy” was successful, winning its first race at the Classic Festival at Pukekohe in 1988. The start of a very long run of successes which continues to this day.

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