Category: Features

Frank’s Famous Last Words #44

Features
Do you enjoy riding your classic bike at night? Frank Westworth used to… I’m uncertain when it was that psychology was invented. Or was it discovered? Maybe someone was rummaging in an old tobacco tin looking for a straight if slightly secondhand split-pin when they discovered psychology? Who can tell? I’m not even entirely sure whether psychology is a good…
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Ariel Red Hunter

Features
The Ariel singles which came to be known as Red Hunters can be traced back to Val Page’s creations of 1926. Originally they were kitted out in black, and those Black Ariels have cultivated a cult following all of their own. The equine connection wasn’t established until Edward Turner flexed his influence in the 1930s. From 1931, the top of…
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Norton Navigator

Features
Classic bike riders often ignore Norton lightweight twins, put off by the bad reputation of the 250 Jubilee. But its bigger brother is an altogether better proposition with a pukka Roadholder front end, decent brakes and an energetic 350 engine… Throughout his long career at the core of the original Britbike industry, designer Bert Hopwood rarely made a monstrous mistake.…
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Eurojumble winners!

Features
Five RealClassic readers have won a free ticket each to the giant Carole Nash Eurojumble on September 1st and 2nd at Netley Marsh. Are you one of the lucky winners? The monthly RealClassic magazine isn’t available over the counter in UK newsagents, so the best way to read it regularly is to subscribe. We appreciate that means you’re making a…
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Classic Bikes For Sale

Classified, Features
Our online Small Ad Showcase features six of the best private adverts from the current issue of RealClassic magazine. This time around we’ve selected Britbikes by Norton, BSA and Triumph, a smashing lightweight Japanese classic, an interesting European off-roader, and a tidy Italian alternative… BSA B40, 1963. MoT till Jul 18. New battery and regulator. £2250. Rex, 0118 987 6734,…
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Wheels & Waves

Events, Features
Mix together motorcycles, music and all manner of laid-back leisure activities. Locate the resulting five-day festival on the French / Spanish border, and you’ve got a recipe for success. So says Ian Woolley, who had a whale of a time… This year’s W&W event was the sixth, although in many ways ‘event’ is too small a word for this multifaceted…
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