Performance Bikes (magazine)

Performance Bikes (PB)

The first issue, April 1985
Editor Dave Calderwood from 1985[1]
Staff writers John Robinson (Technical Editor) from 1985[1]
Categories Motorcycling
Frequency Monthly
Publisher EMAP National Publications Ltd[1]
Bauer Consumer Media Ltd
First issue April 1985
Country United Kingdom
Based in Peterborough, England
Language English
Website Performance Bikes
ISSN 0268-4942

Performance Bikes, often known by the shortened form of "PB", is a monthly British motorcycling magazine which evolved during the 1980s from the long-running Motorcycle Mechanics. The first issue dated April 1985 and entitled Performance Bikes & Mechanics published by EMAP also incorporated the previous version of the title Mechanics and The Biker.[1]

The magazine features a mix of motorcycle and product tests, with technical articles and design innovation.

In 2007, PB under publisher Bauer moved testing of many of the motorcycles to the Nürburgring, in the Eifel Mountains of Germany. Where the Nordschleife fastest lap times are captured and collated into a table. This feature is called the PBTT, which stands for Performance Bikes Test Track.

PB is notable for its long association with the late journalist John Robinson (who had been with the magazine since its Motorcycle Mechanics days until his death in 2001).[2] Robinson was key to Performance Bikes pioneering the use of a dynamometer in the performance testing of motorcycles by a magazine.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Performance Bikes, April 1985, p.3 Index page with Internal Masthead "Performance Bikes & Mechanics. Incorporating Motorcycle Mechanics and The Biker" Accessed 2014-02-26
  2. ↑ John Robinson dies Motorcycle News, 5 August 2001 Retrieved 2014-05-11


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