Features – Real Classic

TT History

30th May 2018 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

At this time of year, all eyes are on the Isle of Man TT races when man and motorcycle take on the most challenging race track in the world. Just how do you hone your skills to tackle the 37 miles of the Mountain Circuit? Well, you practice, of course… For some it will be a fading memory and for…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

26th January 2018 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Nick Adams has been riding the unpaved logging roads through Quebec’s forests on his Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone. Would a modern adventure motorcycle have been a better choice of two-wheeled transport for this trip? As with the road to Parent, the 120 miles of road between Parent and La Tuque was a well maintained gravel highway and not the forest…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

24th January 2018 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Last time, Nick Adams set off on his Moto Guzzi Falcone 500 for a quick spin around the logging roads of Quebec. This time, the traffic comes closer than is entirely comfortable… Parent is a typical, small, isolated railway village: a scattering of houses and public buildings bisected by the railway, the heart and focus of the community. I crossed…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

22nd January 2018 RowenaH Features 2 comments

Moto Guzzi’s Nuovo Falcone is a solidly put-together 500 single. It’s far from fast, but it’s famous for going on forever. That’s just as well. When RC’s Canadian correspondent, Nick Adams, goes for a ‘short trip’ on the unpaved roads around Quebec, the miles soon mount up… Whenever I ride the Nuovo Falcone I’m always pleasantly surprised at how easily…

Frank’s Famous Last Words, #46

22nd December 2017 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Everyone gets excited by the new project. But take care, say Frank Westworth, a man who has begun more projects than most. It is too easy to stumble along the way especially if, for some bizarre reason, you choose not to restore a Norton… A most excellent friend has just ground to a halt in his restoration project. He is…

Biker Down – First Aid

1st November 2017 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

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…