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SURVEY: Win a pair of Held gloves worth £190

5th May 2023 Alex Bestwick Features

RealClassic needs your feedback – and you could win a pair of Held’s award-winning gloves! We want to learn more about the old bike enthusiasts who read RC – every issue or just now and then – so we can keep the magazine firing on all cylinders for you. We’ve created a survey to help us do exactly that. By…

Book of the Week: Agostini on the British Circuits

3rd April 2023 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

Our latest book of the week is the new Agostini on the British Circuits by James Robinson, out next week and available to pre-order now! Celebrating the great Giacomo Agostini, winner of 122 motorcycling Grand Prix on his way to 15 world titles, Agostini: On the British Circuits is a stunning collection of period photographs which captures him in action…

Hurricane Warning!

24th February 2023 RowenaH Events, Features, New & Features, News

We’ve just heard from the Trident and Rocket 3 Owners’ Club that their annual track-based festival of fabulous motorcycles will have a distinctly orange tinge to it this time around. The club’s Beezumph Rally is celebrating its own 30th birthday and also the 50th anniversary of the commercial launch of the iconic Triumph X-75 Hurricane. Designed by Craig Vetter at…

TriBSA 650

20th January 2023 RowenaH Buying Guide, Features, From The Archive, Your Ride

Out of the archive: in another blast from the past we look back at an article John Walton wrote in the early days of RealClassic… looking back at a bike he owned a couple of decades before then! Step into our time machine to meet a pre-unit Triumph 650 twin housed in a BSA A10 chassis… Back in the mists…

Book of the Week: Triumph: Pictorial History of the Great British Marque

9th January 2023 Classic Bike Hub UK Features

In our latest book of the week, James Robinson takes a deep dive into the history of Triumph. Triumph is truly one of the most enduringly popular names in motorcycling. The word itself literally means to win and Triumph the motorcycle maker has, for the most part of its 100-plus years, been a world-class winner. Author James Robinson, editor of The…

Royal Enfield V-Twins

6th January 2023 RowenaH Features, From The Archive

Vintage Royal Enfield V-twins feature front and centre in the January issue of the magazine. Here’s a little bit of history from behind the scenes at the factory, way back in the 1930s… Many thanks to RC regular Robert Murdoch for scouring the Royal Enfield Owners’ Club archive to uncover these images from the Model K’s ancient history. There wasn’t…