Uk motorcycle magazines from the late 70s?

[tight fart]

Can anyone help an old boy (me) with some names of British bike mags from the late 70s please.
I did a magazine article on the longest day back in 1978.
We rode from east London to lands end and back in daylight.
One of the mags did a story and I’d like to find it but I’m struggling.
I’m sure it was 1978, I had a XS1100 and a friend a Gold Wing.
I don’t think it was Bike or Motorcycle mechanics.
And it wasn’t either of the weekly papers that were around then.
I guess if we did it on the 21st of June it would probably have been the August print run but I’ve drawn a blank.

[klootzak]

New Motorycycling Monthly, perhaps?

Sounds like the kind of article they'd have run. More so than Superbike which would have been the other big magazine at the time.

k

[srob]

Motorcycle Sport and Leisure?

[tight fart]

srob said:

Motorcycle Sport and Leisure?

Don’t think it was either of them but New Motorcycling monthly is a possible.
I’ve found up to July 78 but I can’t find anything for August/September.

[kev b]

Sounds like a Motorcycle Sport feature though.

[hiccy18]

klootzak said:

New Motorycycling Monthly, perhaps?

Sounds like the kind of article they'd have run. More so than Superbike which would have been the other big magazine at the time.

k

Thanks for refreshing my memory at least, NMM was the first bike rag I ever bought.

[Drawweight]

On Two Wheels?

[Toma500]

Superbike was the magazine of choice for me in early seventies right through till they folded always had a centrefold with nice bikes and scantily clad ladies in it

[iansp]

It was Motorcycling Monthly September 1978

Unfortunately I do not have a copy of it but you can see the magazine cover and the magazine contents page on the below eBay sold item.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255805534052

[tight fart]

iansp thank you, I’ve been googling and searching eBay to no avail, thanks again.

[tight fart]

Finally found a copy and it arrived today.
Sadly the story wasn’t quite as exciting as my memory had it, still 45 years have passed.
I was on the XS1100.

[SS427 Camaro]

tight fart said:

Finally found a copy and it arrived today.
Sadly the story wasn’t quite as exciting as my memory had it, still 45 years have passed.
I was on the XS1100.

Nice story !
Your maroon XS1100 ( Rhino we called them ) must have been one of the very first to be sold in Britain ?
Charlie Browns roundabout @ Woodford and the Bull and Crown pub in Chingford were so familiar to me, as I grew up in Chingford.
In June 78, I was tearing around Chingford on my M Reg FSIE complete with Allspeed pipe eagerly awaiting July so I could ride my silver Suzuki GT250A, which I think I bought 3 weeks before my birthday.
Are you still in contact with your pal from Hainault with the Wing ?

Edited by SS427 Camaro on Sunday 16th April 00:50

[trickywoo]

SS427 Camaro said:

Are you still in contact with your pal from Hainault with the Wing ?

Looks to be in or near his 50s there so he’s doing well if he’s still with us.

[tight fart]

SS427 Camaro said:

Nice story !
Your maroon XS1100 ( Rhino we called them ) must have been one of the very first to be sold in Britain ?
Charlie Browns roundabout @ Woodford and the Bull and Crown pub in Chingford were so familiar to me, as I grew up in Chingford.
In June 78, I was tearing around Chingford on my M Reg FSIE complete with Allspeed pipe eagerly awaiting July so I could ride my silver Suzuki GT250A, which I think I bought 3 weeks before my birthday.
Are you still in contact with your pal from Hainault with the Wing ?

Edited by SS427 Camaro on Sunday 16th April 00:50

I lived in Station Rd back then, I was working at Mercury despatch and had their orange GT250.
I lost touch with Phill not long after this when he moved to Somerset. Guess he’d be 85-90 if still around.

[SS427 Camaro]

tight fart said:

I lived in Station Rd back then, I was working at Mercury despatch and had their orange GT250.
I lost touch with Phill not long after this when he moved to Somerset. Guess he’d be 85-90 if still around.

Station road, no way !! You won’t believe this, but I remember seeing your Mercury GT250 parked in North Chingford !!
Any photos of it ?
Do you remember Steve Conway ? He had a silver GT250A

[tight fart]

Sorry I don’t remember him, I had a yellow fizzy up to Jan 76, then a round tank RD250 for a couple of weeks then
Jumped up to a GT750 Suzuki.


After doing some dispatch work on that I joined mercury.



Then swapped the Kettle for the XS.