12 bikes you can buy

Two-wheeled temptation comes in myriad forms. Gez Kane guides you through this month’s enticing crop of desirable classic motorcycles

It’s a buyers’ market at the moment, as these sale prices from the last month reveal. Gerard Kane assembles an assortment of tasty machines for a variety of budgets

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The man who spawned Bike magazine in 1971, Mark Williams’ colourful life has been full of many varied two-wheelers. He tells us how he’d blow ten big ones…

…or ‘modern classics’, as they’re also known. A growing market of motorcycles that blend modernity with the charm and aesthetics of yesteryear. And the options are increasing in shape and size – as RiDE discovers by heading out on three bikes that fulfil the mantra

Paul Bennetts is the Stafford Show organiser and Midlands area rep for the CBX Riders Club UK. He’s owned countless sixes over the years – and still loves the thrill of riding Honda’s engineering masterpiece