The Classic MotorCycle

Motorcycling fashion and passion

Magazines devoted to road-going motorcycles commonly feature classifications like sports, street, learners, retros, scooters and so on. Those categories may then be sub-divided to clarify whether 'sports' means sports-tourers, superbikes or track bikes. It may also be explained that 'custom' bikes include both cruisers and specials made in factories or by individuals, and that 'scooters' range from tiny twist and go jobs up to ton-up behemoths.

Then there are 'muscle' bikes with engines too powerful for their roadholding, and 'adventure'

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