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I hate retro!

Concerning certain pages of the February 2018 edition of CMM: please don’t spoil the magazine by advertising and featuring brand new motorcycles, even if they do bear glancing similarities to classics and are named as the new ‘this or that.’

I’ve subscribed to CMM for years now, it’s a great mag but I don’t want to read about bikes that are only a year or so old or new. Print something about the new Z900RS in 20-30 years’ time. Please don’t spoil a good magazine the way other magazines have gone, i.e. Classic Bike, that publication used to be great then it got spoilt. Mags like RiDE and BIKE, and so on are for modern bikes.

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