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Rickman CR750! Tasty Twins! BSA Flat-tracker! This month’s RealClassic has everything you need for running, riding and rebuilding RealClassic motorcycles.
BRAND NEW STRATFORD AUTOJUMBLE TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
It’s a brand new event but Stratford Autojumble offers the chance for a good old-fashioned rummage!
This year, May 12 and September 15 are the dates to pencil into your diary for lazy Sundays browsing for bits and bobs – or maybe bolts and belts –for your unfinished automotive project. It’s just how Sundays should be!
What: Stratford Autojumble
Where:…
The Toastmaster Challenge, Part the Fifth
In which things start to go back together. And come apart again… Frank Westworth understands that patience is a virtue indeed…
Do you suffer from feelings of both incredulity and inadequacy when you read most restoration features? I do, and I’m hardly ashamed at all to admit it. I must have read several hundred tales over the years in which…
Café Racers en Continent
The 2019 Café Racer
Festival at Montlhéry was the seventh iteration of this event and it keeps
getting better, says Ian Woolley. It is a magical melange of motorcycles,
music, and track rides…
Motorcycles come from many genres, many generations and include modern manufactures who bring fleets of their latest offerings for you to try during accompanied test rides. Brilliant…
The Toastmaster Challenge, Part the Fourth
If you’re going to rebuild a burned-out Ariel Huntmaster, then you’re going to need spare parts. Lots of them. We present Frank Westworth’s guide to autojumbling for idiots…
What do you do when faced with the realisation that you’ve started a project which is not what you expected? Do you shovel the whole lot into a deep pit and pretend it never…
The Toastmaster Challenge, Part the Third
Is this any way to restore a traditional British classic bike? The story of Frank Westworth’s improbable rebuild continues. Slowly…
‘That’s an Ariel Huntmaster, that is.’
‘What is? That pile of bits?’
‘What pile of bits? That’s an Ariel Huntmaster, that is…’
My first Ariel, my first Huntmaster, was not in fact mine. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t ride…
The Toastmaster Challenge, Part the Second
Only an expert or an optimist would attempt to rebuild a totally burned-out classic motorcycle. So here’s Frank Westworth’s guide to stripping down for idiots…
Every sane treatise on the subject of rebuilding motor vehicles insists that any successful restoration follows a few rules. This is in fact the case, and any sane person should ignore the way I do…
Ariel Huntmaster Rebuild Part 1: The Toastmaster Challenge
How to spend uncounted piles of money over many years in the fond hope that a shiny Ariel Huntmaster will arise from its own ashes. Frank Westworth tells an episodic tale from the shed…
Everyone likes a challenge. At least, I hope that’s true…
I was sat in a local pub, chatting with one Sam Whitehouse, when he mentioned that…