Motorcyclist Retro

Where can I get one, Terry??

Unreal. I'll look around tomorrow. Thanks!

I picked it up last week at K&S News stand. Already put the RD poster up in the garage.
I found two ads for vintage electrical parts interesting, most of that stuff is discontinued, pgs. 17 & 55.
The mag itself is wider than standard too.

I picked the first issue at a Barnes and Noble a while back and it is a very cool mag, it's got a little bit of everything just like Motorcyclist did back in the day.

Its a great mag. My local grocery store had it. They promise subscriptions for 2009

My Bro-in-law has the first issue, looking for the second. I was relunctant to return the first one! Great Mag.

Thanks for the heads up TerryK.

Thanks for the kind words, guys and gals. And for the support of the magazine. It helps more than you know.

Motorcyclist Retro is a bit of a personal mission of mine, a dirt and street magazine that focuses on the glory days of motorcycling - 1965 to about '85 - and which focuses primarily on Japanese machinery and culture.

Obviously, the American and British iron has been - and is - covered well. But for whatever reason, the Japanese invasion, the bikes that most of us grew up on and lusted after, has been mostly ignored. Our goal is to cover the great bikes of this era in a way that hasn't been done before; to dig deep and bring to light the details of development, the impact they had on the market, how they relate today, and how to keep them running and vital in the 2000s.

Issue two is out on stands now, and issue three will be out in December.

Better yet, we're going to be bi-monthly in '09, and will offer subscriptions at www.motorcyclistretro.com in a few weeks when the site goes live.

Thanks for the support, and feel free to email us at classicmail@sourceinterlink.com.

Best regards,

Mitch Boehm
Editor
Motorcyclist Retro

I am still searching for the second issue with the GPz550 project...I have an 81 GPz550 with under 7K miles in mint shape...I love new bikes but I also love to see the old stuff

Picked mine up at the F&F speed shop rack(Farm &Fleet) Did the first issue have the Elsinore article in it or was that the second? Thanks for the mag now it looks like I'll never clean out the garage of all those old never finished project bikes.........

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Those fork tubes are sooooo skinny it hurts to look at them
But what did they know back in the day?

Love that era.

Elsinore and Z1 are in issue two. Issue one (CB750 and Hi) is gone.

Thanks!

Mitch

Hi Terry

Unfortunately, issue one is gone. Our publisher wasn't confident this magazine had any legs (even though we all know there are many, many thousands of guys and gals who would love a monthly magazine like this, and would be willing to pay for it), so they didn't print any extras, which they normally do for just this purpose - back-issue sales. It's too bad, too, cause if they'd kept a few thousand extras, they'd have made a ton more money on it. Oh well...me and my publisher talked until we were blue in the face, all to no avail. Anyway, issue two is out now, and issue three will be available in mid-December. Look for sub info on motorcyclistonline.com or motorcyclistretro.com shortly; next month or so.

Thanks!

Mitch