RealClassic Magazine: Issue 136 On Sale
The August issue of RealClassic magazine is out now. You won't find it in the shops, so here's where to browse the British bikes and Italian classics, and maybe buy a copy
View ArticleClassic Motorcycle News 2015
Royal Enfield’s CEO returns to the firm's heritage homeland; vintage and veteran bikes blaze through the Home Counties, and Lewis Leathers need your assistance
View ArticleMallory Bike Bonanza 2015
If you don't mind missing out on the parades of star riders, then the Saturday at this track event is less hectic than the Sunday. Richard Jones grabbed the opportunity to photograph oodles of old...
View ArticleIsle of Man TT - The Photographic History by Bill Snelling and Michael Scott
This handsome hardback aims to captures the spirit, excitement and danger of the world's most famous motorcycle road race series. We asked Bill Nelson to read it and he went quite quiet (for a while)
View ArticleBrit Singles In Scotland, Part 1
Considering touring Scotland on classic British bikes? Stuart Urquhart has done it afore ye, and offers advice on the roads best travelled and way-stations to avoid
View ArticleTriumph Triple Cafe Custom
If a traditional café racer is 'a light-weight, lightly-powered motorcycle optimised for speed and handling on quick rides over short distances', then Henry Gregson thinks he may have found its modern...
View ArticleNorton Rotary Racers at the Classic TT
One of the long-awaited highlights of this month's Classic TT will be the Norton Rotary Parade on Saturday 29th August, when a baker's dozen of these iconic machines will be let loose on the Mountain...
View ArticleJack's Hill Cafe Ton Up Day, 2015
You would expect to find plenty of café racers at a café, wouldn't you? Richard Jones also tracked down some more standard British classic bikes alongside some international exotica
View ArticleBMW R80/7 - Part 16: In Which Nothing Happens
There are now 110,000 miles on the odometer of Martin Gelder's Franken-BMW R80/R100 hybrid, and probably quite a few more under its wheels. Nothing's really gone wrong, but that doesn't stop him...
View ArticleFounder's Day 2015
Every year, the Taverner's section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club celebrate the club's beginnings with Founder's Day, a giant jumble, gymkhana and grand day out. Richard Jones reports
View ArticleBeyond The Coffee Shop by Nick Adams
Now available in a paperback edition, so you too can travel to the Canadian wilderness on a classic Italian motorcycle
View ArticleBrit Singles In Scotland, Part 2
Before Stuart Urquhart and Dave, his travelling companion, can continue their travels around Scotland on Brit singles, they must first convince their classic motorcycles to function
View ArticleEurojumble – Netley Marsh - 4th, 5th September
One of the year's major autojumbles takes place this coming weekend at Netley Marsh near Southampton. As well as the usual spares for sale, this year's jumble also features an auction of classic...
View ArticleRallies: Another Old-Time Tall Tale
Once upon a time, motorcycle riders rode to muddy fields and created almost entirely innocuous entertainment with whatever fell readily to hand. Matt Swindlehurst recalls one such bike rally
View ArticleSammy Miller Run 2015
Classic bike riders travelled from as far afield as Belgium to join in this year's Sammy Miller Run, bringing a welcome splash of continental colour to join the British bikes
View ArticleRealClassic Magazine: Issue 137 On Sale
The September issue of RealClassic magazine is available now; stuffed full of old Brit bikes and an American interloper
View ArticleBrackley Festival of Motorcycling 2015
Take one quiet Northamptonshire town. Close its long, sloping high street and add barriers to make a circuit of two straights joined by a pair of hairpin bends. Add RealClassic reporter Richard Jones...
View Article2015 Classic TT Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling
One of the biggest problems for people going to the Classic TT is how to fit everything in. Henry Gregson gave it his best shot
View ArticleArchives: Backwards Glance
Oily Boot Bob investigates the Dundee Scrolls, and discovers a personal connection to some technologically innovative and pioneering Royal Enfield motorcycles of the vintage era
View ArticleFamous Last Words 31: Almost Any Motorcycle is a Delight
Frank Westworth has inadvertently encouraged someone to buy a classic BSA C15. This may be an offence punishable on summary conviction
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