Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Winner, winner!

CMM BIKE OF THE YEAR

The premise was simple enough – at least initially… CMM regularly gets reader input in the form of ‘Show Us Yours’ submissions and many of these are SO expansive or the bikes so interesting we get in contact and try to find out more: that’s where our reader restoration features come from.

They’ve always proved popular with our readers and we welcome reader content in what is YOUR magazine, so the idea that we could reward one lucky winner with some goodies courtesy of Bridgestone – our kind sponsors – was a good one. Then, of course, we realised that we couldn’t just give away ONE prize as many of our readers’ builds weren’t just straight restorations: some were specials and some were VERY special indeed.

Simple, then. We start a competition in the March 2020 issue (normally started early in the year) and work our way through a few special bikes and restos and do a big awards do at the CMM show at

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