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.
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2000 YAMAHA YZR250
Sir Alan of Cathcart recalls riding Olivier Jaque’s title-winning Yamaha factory quarter-litre. What made this bike so good? And how did it take both first and runner-up places in the championship that season?
BOB BROWN
Fred Pidcock tells the story of Bob Brown. A teaktough Aussie privateer who dabbled with the odd factory ride, but never quite got the breaks he deserved.
ICONIC METAL: 1980 SUZUKI XR69
Terry Joslin’s camera and Vince Rank’s words give us the details on the machine which gave legendary Kiwi Graeme Crosby one of his most successful years of racing. She’s a beaut!
YAMAHA TZ750 FLATTRACKER
Roland Brown retells the story of allegedly the scariest racing motorcycle of all time in perhaps the greatest race of all time: Kenny Roberts’ TZ750-based flat-track machine.
