- PREVIEW: May issue of RealClassic magazine
The brand new May edition of RealClassic magazine is packed full of classic machines, tales from the shed, in-depth interviews and striking photography. Here’s what’s coming up in the May issue: Sunbeam B24T Competition In between the original Marston company’s Sunbeam singles and BSA’s Sunbeam twins, there was a period when AMC built their own singular Sunbeams down in London. They’re very rare. Alan Cathcart rides one… Royal Enfield Wallaby Small, springy and built for life in the bush: the Wallaby is an indigenous marsupial native to Australia…and a really rather rare Royal Enfield. Rowena Hoseason reports BSA Lightning Rocket What could …
National Motorcycle Museum announce Winter Raffle draw results
The National Motorcycle Museum have announced the results of their highly-anticipated Winter Raffle to win a brand new/old stock 1979 Triumph Bonneville T140D Special 750cc motorcycle.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions postponing April’s International Classic Bike Show at Stafford, the raffle was instead drawn by racing legend John Cooper and his wife Rosie at their home in Derbyshire on April 25, 2021.
John can be…
Royal Enfield Electra-X: Enfield’s underdog
The Bullet buying guides in RC198 and 199 prompted Keith McKechnie to put electronic pen to paper about his experience with a 2006 Royal Enfield Electra-X. It’s a machine which has become something of an orphan among Royal Enfield enthusiasts, he says: ‘but I’ve grown to like it over the years while sorting out a few problems on the way…’…
AJS Adventures
Riding a motorcycle at night can be rather lonely, says Greg Powell. Here are two experiences that he recalls from many years ago, one natural and the other (almost) supernatural…
One winter evening, I rode my AJS 18 over to Ross-on-Wye to visit my friend Alan. After a pleasant few hours and the disposal of several pints of Newcastle Brown…
PREVIEW: May issue of RealClassic magazine
The brand new May edition of RealClassic magazine is packed full of classic machines, tales from the shed, in-depth interviews and striking photography.
Here’s what’s coming up in the May issue:
Sunbeam B24T Competition
In between the original Marston company’s Sunbeam singles and BSA’s Sunbeam twins, there was a period when AMC built their own singular Sunbeams down in London. They’re very…
Beezumph bounced to 2022
The annual triple-cylinder extravaganza that is Beezumph will NOT go ahead this summer as planned, despite extensive efforts by the organisers, the Trident and Rocket 3 Owners’ Club. The TR3OC is dedicated to promoting the use of BSA and Triumph pushrod engine triples, and has run its annual track-based rally for 28 years.
Last year’s event was inevitably postponed and…
Norton Dominator: an Australian investigation. Part 4
What else do we know about the unusual Norton 500 twins which seem to be an export special, sent to the Australian market? Were these machines intended to be sidecar tugs? Bruce J Tinworth thinks otherwise…
In 1947, Gordon ‘Shorty’ Purcell commenced a five-year apprenticeship with Hazell & Moore in Newcastle in New South Wales. H&M were agents for Norton,…