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Riding Lives

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RowenaH

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5th January 2026

Several RC regulars – including Rowena – cut their motorcycling teeth as despatch riders in the express courier business. Paul Myers shares his memories of a working life on two wheels… I didn’t really make a conscious decision to become a despatch rider. It just sort of happened. Sometime in the early to mid 1980s,…
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The BSA Rocket 3 with three lives

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Trevor Drury

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10th January 2024

Over the years, we’ve featured many (many!) BSA and Triumph triples in RealClassic. Trevor Drury explains how his much-modded Rocket 3 evolved into the machine you see here…
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TriBSA 650

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RowenaH

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20th January 2023

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…
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Royal Enfield V-Twins

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RowenaH

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6th January 2023

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…
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Triumph Tiger Cubs: part two

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RowenaH

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14th August 2021

Last time, Paul Henshaw recalled his first adventures aboard Edward Turner’s Sports Cub. Turns out this was one of those formative experiences which lasts a lifetime… Sometime later after it’d been restored to full working order, I blew a big hole in the bottom of the Sports Cub’s crankcases, with both conrod and piston exiting…
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Backwards Glance: The Manx Grand Prix

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RowenaH

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17th June 2020

RealClassic reader Brian Sussex recently uncovered some wonderful photos, handed down through his neighbour’s family. Arthur’s uncle George, it seems, was a clubman racer who ventured to the Isle of Man in 1934 to participate in the premier amateur event of the year, the Manx Grand Prix… The Manx GP began in 1923 when there…
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Classic Italians in action

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RowenaH

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24th May 2020

RC Regular Stu loves his old Italian tiddlers. When he recently discovered an old book, A Million Miles Of Racing, part of ‘The Racing Year’ series, one story in particular grabbed his attention… The book outlines the Ulster grand prix in 1950, and in particular the ultra-lightweight 125cc race which was the first time the…
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