Classic Dirt Bike

Former Bultaco star Bernie Schreiber will be the star turn at the Westmorland Motor Club’s Bultaco Nostalgia Trial, which is raising vital funds for the charity CancerCare. Before that though, and closer to hand, the club has some stage time at Telfo

If your postie got their skates on and you’re reading this copy within minutes of it arriving through your door, there’s just time for you to get to the 2019 Hagon sponsored Classic Dirt Bike Show, which is on this weekend (February 16/17) at the Tel

As questions go it’s a pretty innocuous one to ask, after all everyone knows what their favourite motorcycle of all time is don’t they? It is a question which has produced some surprising answers when I’ve quizzed owners about their bikes for feature

Ground-breaking production bikes, as opposed to the type that break the ground, sometimes arise from the most unlikely sources. In this case, Joel Corroy’s Trail 70 business in Vesoul, a town in the region of Franche-Comte in eastern France. Joel’s m

Was the SC a fabulous bike? No, apparently not, according to contemporary magazine reports. What they describe is an open class motorcycle with a razor thin powerband which could fling even the best of riders either off the back or into the scenery a

By his own admission Sammy Miller was no longer at the top of his trials career in the early Seventies, having pretty much dominated the Sixties, first with his highly developed Ariel based 500cc single, then – to the disbelief of the feet-up establi

Is it really 13 years since launch editor Gez Kane asked me if I wanted to be involved in the spangly new publication all about the off-road scene and to be called Classic Dirt Bike? My answer to him then was ‘most definitely yes!’ as the off-road sc

It isn’t often in magazine world that we get our hands on a bike which has been featured in the press of the past. There are plenty of ‘similar to’ models, but the actual one is a rarity. It was actually by a total off-chance we got to look at the 44

Ignition systems wear out, power drops off, starting is ‘interesting’ and generally the bike underperforms. If your SWM is like that then Martin Mathews at MotoSWM may have the answer. His new electronic ignition kits replace the points system on SWM

There’s an old adage in my trade as a joiner, one probably applicable to other manual trades too, which goes ‘measure twice, cut once’ and doesn’t really need to be explained. Like most people though, I’ve not always followed such sayings and regret

It is possible to be involved in the dirt bike world without ever needing to touch a spanner, or doing any work on a bike yourself. Arguably, a lot of modern bikes don’t need a lot of rider/owner input to keep them going, generally this is because th

It doesn’t matter which discipline you ride in there will be something in the world of old motorcycle sport for you That’s certainly been our experience and as CDB is put together by people involved in the scene who’ve embraced as many of the events

Prior to 1999, The Poachers Bag, Reliance Cup Trial and The West Riding Trial were part of the ‘British Bike Series’ but when the series’ organiser retired, all the British Pre-65 Road Trials were to come under the new Sammy Miller series umbrella. I

After a dominant season in 2017, Kris Winder returned to defend the Pre 74 championship on the super-quick Elsinore Honda but expectations were high from the threat of ‘young guns’ Chris Chell and Greg Speed, along with 2017 runner-up Keith Rice. Pre

With a range of popular single cylinder motorcycles in its catalogue, AMC obviously wanted to publicise its name and to be seen winning in the sporting world was, for a good while, the best option. For some reason there had been a falling out with th

When Russian soldier Guennady Moisseev brought KTM their first world MX title in 1974, the Austrian factory presented him with a Mercedes as a mark of their gratitude. That this feat came within 10 years of the quietly spoken junior officer’s first s