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Opinion: riding classic bikes

21st March 2021 RowenaH Blog, Features

We’re all looking forward to getting back in the saddle as the weather warms up and restrictions are lifted. Here’s a timely reminder from Reg Eyre about current road and traffic conditions – some drivers have become used to the roads being empty, while others won’t have had much practice recently… While living under isolation rules, I undertook ‘essential travel’…

Condition Not Important

31st August 2015 Classic Bike Hub UK Blog

To some folk, a classic bike is a precious thing to be cosseted and cared for. Steve Cooper of the VJMC argues that there’s room for the scruffy sort, too… I recently encountered the legendary chap who has what appears to be the world’s most care-worn BSA Bantam. Sporting copious layers of hand-applied blue and red paint, this machine apparently…

Famous Last Words 14: Not All Old Bike Shops Were Great

31st August 2015 Classic Bike Hub UK Blog

You might expect that everyone sufficiently fortunate to ride old motorcycles would inevitably be cheerful. Frank Westworth can’t understand why not entirely everyone is… Gloom. You get to recognise it as it walks towards you. ‘Another old one’s gone.’ I gaze with a familiar sinking sense of inevitability at a man who has materialised before me. I must have dozed…

What's Classic and What's Not

31st August 2015 Classic Bike Hub UK Blog

What is a ‘classic’? It’s one of those abstract questions that has fuelled a million internet arguments, ever since the first bulletin board was set up for people to talk about old vehicles. Andy Wegg adds fuel to the fire with a Jawa Mustang and some 500cc Hondas… ‘Classic’ is one of those unfortunate words that has had its meaning…

SatNav Savvy!

31st August 2015 Classic Bike Hub UK Blog

Andreas Ganzera responds to Rowena’s recent grumbling about not using GPS or modem navigational aids. Andreas reckons SatNav makes much more sense on the European mainland… I ride and repair an old MZ combination (ES250/1 from 1958) and some Yamaha bikes including dirt bikes, and live in Austria. I am no native English speaker so not everything may be spelled…

Famous Last Words 29a: On Knowledge, Power, BSA C15s and Anoraks

31st August 2015 Classic Bike Hub UK Blog

Power is knowledge, apparently. This may be important if you intend to own a BSA C15, as Frank Westworth explains… Knowledge, so they tell us, is power. They tell us this, whoever They are, and it sounds good, so it must be true. Which is how politics works, also political correctness, which is not the same thing. I have a…