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In the grip of nostalgia, you may be tempted to try to find your P&J from years gone by. We’ve found that strategic enquiries works better than the scattergun approach… Every week we receive letters and adverts from previous owners asking to be reunited with their classic bikes. It’s a common theme; I loved that bike. I sold it when…

Old bike clubs are right at the core of the classic bike scene. Frank Westworth has belonged to many clubs, but wonders whether the excitement is all too much… Whenever I have paused to think about it, I have always wondered why bike clubs are so popular. Think about this. One of the reasons we (OK; ‘I’) enjoy motorcycling so…

That’s no way to treat a classic bike! John Kane revisits a simple land before heroes emerged from the back streets… In 1971 choppers were becoming fashionable in Britain. Lots of 15 year-olds like me had Easy Rider posters on their walls. Peter Fonda and the other one (Dennis Hopper) were the epitome of cool sophisticated bikers. The rockers and…

The workshop (shed, garage or whathaveyou) is an essential part of classic biking life, it seems. John R Kerridge (aka Yorkie) explains why every man should have one… A shed, a hut, a lean-to; a shelter, a den or a garage. Call it what you will it’s something every man should have. It’s a place of recreation, a place where…

When it comes to navigation, Rowena Hoseason is a traditionalist at heart and has no truck with SatNav… Earlier in the year I mentioned my Unmentionable motorcycle in the RC subscriber’s newsletter. An Unmentionable, for anyone unacquainted with the technical terminology, is a motorcycle which really truly and absolutely does not have any place in the monthly RealClassic magazine, no…

Matt Swindlehurst recalls a time of dirty carrots, dodging rugby practice, shooting a Lee Enfield rifle – oh, and there’s a Matchless G3 in here somewhere, too… Back in the late 1960s the housewives of Leek in North Staffordshire certainly knew their onions – and their cabbages and their cauliflowers and, in particular, their carrots. Carrots had to be misshaped,…