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How many classic motorcycles can you partly dismantle and carry home on an aeroplane as excess baggage? Matt Little explains how to brighten up a winter’s weekend in Sweden… When looking around an antique dealer’s barn on a cold, dark, weekend in Sweden, I noticed quite a few nicely mellowed, unrestored Swedish mopeds and motorcycles.…

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If you enjoy drooling over exotic racing motorcycles, then this book captures the gems of the Miller Museum between its covers, and does them ultimate justice with glorious presentation… Redline Books, who’ve produced this 228-page softback, really know how to publish beautiful books about motorcycles. Honestly, the subject matter could be scruffy old Bantams and…

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A rebuild draws to a close, and Gerry Atric makes a discovery about Lucas alternators which may help you if your electrical system fails to charge its battery properly… Assembling my large DIY motorbike kit was not without its snags. For a start I was a little disappointed with how brittle the stove-enamelling was. While…

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Gerry Atric’s restoration of his 500cc twin continues, and we’ve discovered some other info about these bikes, too… While all the previously described work was going on, I had been regularly visiting autojumbles in an effort to find the missing pieces of the jigsaw, which might one day make up a complete bike (one with…

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A quarter of a century ago, Gerry Atric started a restoration project on a 500cc Royal Enfield twin. And was ably assisted by… a muppet… So I’d acquired a vehicle suitable for restoration (or a pile of scrap, according to your viewpoint), and the next step was to examine each item and plan the renovation.…

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Nearly 25 years ago, Gerry Atric started a restoration project. Finished it yet, Gerry? Gerry? Hello….?… Back in the early Sixties my pride and joy was a 1958 Royal Enfield Meteor Minor 500cc twin. Girls came second (mind you, only just!). One icy January morning in 1962, just outside the Kraft factory in Waltham Cross,…

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It’s not the most fashionable of British twins, but the 600cc Matchless has a lot going for it, says Neil Thomas of Classic Bike Provence… Christmas came early last year for the folks at Classic Bike Provence, and Santa delivered a rather fine 600cc parallel twin in the shape of a Matchless G11. Sarah and…

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When we feature a bike in the RealClassic magazine, there’s often a whole pile of photos left over which don’t get into print and which no one gets to see. Shame! Here you are, then: a selection of previously unseen snaps for your delectation… Random Matchlesses on eBay.co.uk Matchless G80CS Fact Pack Engine Type: Air-cooled…

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Just imagine: you buy a raffle ticket and then you win the classic bike of your dreams. But can it ever live up to them? BikerMarc says yes, it can… Being a cynical old chap I rarely bought raffle tickets on the basis that the devil really looks after his own but strange things happen…

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