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March / April 2025

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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.

HP MULLER

Fred Pidcock examines the career of HP ‘Happy’ Muller: a rider who not only raced pre and postwar, but also was a notable breaker of speed records.

BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY

…from a Chrysalis BMW F650 Supermono racer. Neil Morris restores his dad’s TT-winning bike with help from friends and former team staff. It’s a labour of love.

1957 ROYAL ENFIELD SUPER METEOR 700

Alan Cathcart rides a venerable production bike from when British motorcycle manufacturers would ‘win on Sunday and sell on Monday.’

PHIL ‘MEZ’ MELLOR

If popularity alone won championships, the legendary Mez Mellor would have been a multiple world champ. Stuart Barker gives us the story of the talented and much-loved (and missed) Mez.


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