September / October 2024

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.

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DUCATI 996

Alan Cathcart rides two Ducatis from 1997 which showed how even the dominant Bologna factory from the 1990s can head down a developmental cul-de-sac! So, which bike is best? Carl Fogarty’s or Frankie Chili’s?

DUCATI RACING – 1990s STYLE

Ducati rose to be the dominant force in the ‘new’World Superbike race championship of the 1990s – but how and who won on their bloodred machines?

ICONIC METAL: 1973 KONIG 500

Talented Kiwi racer and engineer Kim Newcombe took an engine destined to be an outboard motor and made it into a Grand Prix winner. Check out this replica of his 1973 machine.

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HONDA CB500 RACER

Mike ‘Spike’ Edwards bought a bike in memory of his mate Barry – but now he has to get this 1990s commuter bike stripped, prepped and ready for the racetrack. In part two, something goes wrong with the motor – and Mike!

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