I am sorry to hear that. I have been grabbing an issue at the airport before my travels for decades. Always enjoyed the articles. Just came across an 81 and 82 Peterson Motorcycle Buyer's Guide. Always looked forward to that publication each year. That brought back some memories.
I have one from 1972. It has my first new Yamaha I bought in it. It also has a great article on modifying a CB77 Honda. I happen to have two. There is another write-up on the brand-new H-D XR 750 aluminum-alloy engine, which would come to dominate the AMA flat-track competition for decades. In an interesting confluence of symbiotic events, a
Cycle World editor, Allen Girdler, who famously owned a road-going XR-750, literally 'wrote the book' on the Harley-Davidson XR 750:
https://www.amazon.com/Harley-Davidson-Xr-750-Allan-Girdler/dp/1626549346
Typical of
Cycle World's writing and dedication to the sport of motorcycling, Allen Girdler once shipped his 'road-bike' XR 750 to Europe, to tour on it (and we complain about our VMax gas-range!); I recall one paragraph where he was on a vessel, transporting the bike across some body of water, and when he went to roll-off the ship, he saw that someone had stolen his personalized "XR-750" California license plate, which must-have seemed to-be an impossibly-exotic 'souvenir' of value to the thief. His bike also bore the iconic 'Cycle World' stars & bar-shield that CW publisher Joe Parkhurst asked all-sorts of motorsports competitors to use.
Here's another
Cycle World/Sport Rider story about an editor drag-racing a H-D Sportster in the AHDRA (All Harley-Davidson Drag Racing Association) final in Las Vegas:
Fish Out Of Water
My favorite
Cycle World drag-racing story involving one of their editors was about John Ulrich, a noted two-wheeled competitor in a number of race series, who was offered the chance to try racing a H-D Pro-Stock Sportster running-on NOS. Rather than relate the outcome, read the synopsis, it's scary!
Cycle World Magazine
The Harley-Davidson XR750 In The ’80s