The June jamboree of RealClassic motorcycling is now available for mail-order or digital delivery. With a couple of swift clicks you could read all about a really rare three-cylinder prototype, a trio of vintage British singles, a classic Japanese thumper and a truly unusual European two-stroke. Oh! And a Triumph twin or two. Of course…
As usual, RC266 features the best of British bikes, international classics and other intriguing machines from the earliest days of pioneer motorcycling through to the 1980s. Your contributors are Editor Frank Westworth, historian Jacqueline Bickerstaff, Ace Tester Paul Miles, Paul Henshaw aka the ‘Bullet whisperer’, Rowena Hoseason, Alan Cathcart, Ollie Hulme, Kevin Lemire and our other expert and enthusiast authors who write about the bikes they know best
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
ARIEL 250
The first of our pre-war British singles, this one’s actually an OH/OG model sold in 1940. How easy was it to recommission, and what’s it like to ride?
LAVERDA ALPINO
Part two of this rebuild series, in which a 500 twin is returned to the road. This time: untangling the top end and adventures with the ignition system
OMEGA 4A
A proper pioneer machine, suitable for the Banbury Run, owned for the last 40 years and restored to fully rideable condition. It’s even conquered Sun Rising Hill three times!
PUCH 125
A 1970s sporty two-stroke, capable of riding from London to Austria and back over a long weekend, two-up, at an average of 46mph…
TRIUMPH 3TA TRAILIE
The final instalment of this short series, about fettling and fixing a unit-contribution 350 twin
TRIUMPH TR6R TIGER
How to remember a good friend: by returning a rusty wreck to the road – a 1969 650 single-carb twin. And yes, he cleaned the sludge trap!
TRIUMPH T180 TRIDENT
50 years after the T160 went out of production, rumours of its long-lost long-stroke successor suggested one might still exist. The TR3OC were on the case…
YAMAHA SR500
Bought at the end of the 1970s, this big single went into storage for 38 years and recently returned to the road. Does it live up to its owner’s recollections?
ZENITH 250
Famous for exotic record-breakers, Zenith went on to build workaday commuter bikes for the 1930s. Meet the humble LC1, a cobby single capable of tackling tough trials at the weekend
PLUS! PUB reports from Jack’s Caff and the Stafford Show; reader free ads include an AJS 18, BSA B33, Velocette Thruxton and Triumph T120 for sale; readers write about which Panther singles they prefer, Enfields in action and AJS adventures; and the Triumph TR65 Thunderbird project continues in Frank’s Big Shed
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