Author: RowenaH

Groovy new T-shirt

Features
RC readers with reasonable memories will recall that last year’s T-shirt featured a super-stylish ‘heading off into the sunset’ design. It went down a treat, so we figured that for 2018* we’d do the same… but different. This time around, the bike is roaring towards you in glorious stereoscopic 2D-o-vision. The Ride/Read/RealClassic T-shirt design suits all sorts of classic motorcycles…
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Biker Down – First Aid

Features
If you’re the first person on the scene at a road traffic accident which involves a motorcyclist, do you know what to do? The UK’s Fire and Rescue Service runs an award-winning, free, emergency first aid training scheme. Lawrence Howes went along… My club section recently attended a Biker Down session; a national initiative to reduce the consequences of motorcycle…
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Brough Superior

Features
Built between 1919 and 1940, George Brough’s ‘Superior’ motorcycles are instantly recognisable, admired by the masses as perhaps the ultimate pre-war classic bike. But why, asks Richard Jones, have these speed machines accumulated such kudos? What is it about them which inspires such admiration… and commensurately high prices? Here’s a question for you – are the prices paid for Brough…
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BMW Mystic

Features
A Bridgestone 350 won the official award for the best in show bike at this autumn’s Stafford Show. But RC’s editor chose an entirely different classic bike as his machine of the moment. Frank Westworth asks Motorworks to play Mystic for me… Everywhere we look these days, it appears that one of several current great trends is to take an…
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A Racing Read

Reviews
For British motorcycle road racing fans of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s there was no better racer than Peter Williams. Usually riding underpowered bikes, Peter embodied the spirit of the British underdog at a time when most fans were still intensely patriotic and yearned for British success. This book, ‘Designed To Race’, charts Peter’s early life, moves on to cover his…
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Museum LIVE Open Day

Events
In case you missed us at the Stafford Show this month, the RC Roadshow will be rolling along to the National Motorcycle Museum’s LIVE event on Saturday 4th November 2017. This free-to-enter event not only gives you access to the world’s largest collection of British classic bikes but also incorporates a jam-packed schedule of special attractions. Here’s some of what…
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