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Hurricane Warning!

24th February 2023 RowenaH Events, Features, New & Features, News

We’ve just heard from the Trident and Rocket 3 Owners’ Club that their annual track-based festival of fabulous motorcycles will have a distinctly orange tinge to it this time around. The club’s Beezumph Rally is celebrating its own 30th birthday and also the 50th anniversary of the commercial launch of the iconic Triumph X-75 Hurricane. Designed by Craig Vetter at…

Classic Bikes For Sale

23rd February 2023 RowenaH Classified, News

Welcome to our latest online selection of classic motorcycles seeking new homes. This time we showcase three very different Triumphs – one genuine collector’s item, no less – and at least one machine you’ve probably never heard of. Could you be tempted to make space in your shed for one of these old bikes? Prices start at £2500… ROYAL ENFIELD…

Bristol Classic Bike Show

9th February 2023 RowenaH Events, News

A hundred years of BMW bikes, the 75th birthday of the BSA Bantam and a stack of Norton rotary racers. All this and more at Shepton Mallet at the end of the month… The ‘and more’ of course includes the RealClassic Roadshow, which you should find in the Edmund Rack hall, by the main doors (facing the refreshment stalls: how…

TriBSA 650

20th January 2023 RowenaH Buying Guide, Features, From The Archive, Your Ride

Out of the archive: in another blast from the past we look back at an article John Walton wrote in the early days of RealClassic… looking back at a bike he owned a couple of decades before then! Step into our time machine to meet a pre-unit Triumph 650 twin housed in a BSA A10 chassis… Back in the mists…

Royal Enfield V-Twins

6th January 2023 RowenaH Features, From The Archive

Vintage Royal Enfield V-twins feature front and centre in the January issue of the magazine. Here’s a little bit of history from behind the scenes at the factory, way back in the 1930s… Many thanks to RC regular Robert Murdoch for scouring the Royal Enfield Owners’ Club archive to uncover these images from the Model K’s ancient history. There wasn’t…

Dave Minton remembered, part two

31st December 2022 RowenaH Features, News

In the second part of this celebration of his life, RealClassic regulars recall their encounters with DLM while readers reflect how he influenced their riding lives… I remember meeting Dave at one of the meets at the transport café at Prees Heath. He and I were wandering around looking at the bikes in the car park and happened to both…