From The Archive Archives

The BSA Rocket 3 with three lives

10th January 2024 Trevor Drury Features, From The Archive

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… Words and photographs by Trevor Drury The Rocket 3 was built on 9th June 1971 and shipped the next day to California. It returned to the UK in 2007, repatriated by the…

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…

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…

Triumph Tiger Cubs: part two

14th August 2021 RowenaH Features, From The Archive, Reviews, Your Ride

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 onto the road in many…

Backwards Glance: The Manx Grand Prix

17th June 2020 RowenaH Features, From The Archive

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 were suggestions that the TT…

Classic Italians in action

24th May 2020 RowenaH Features, From The Archive

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 little Italian bikes had competed.…