New & Features

What’s new in the world of old bikes? Classic Japs on display in Scotland, a rare book on rockers returns, and replica Girlings now available from Goffy… Toy Boys The weekend of the 13th and 14th of December brought with it plenty of cold weather ice and snow, says RC reader John Nicholls in Eire.…

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The big beasts of the late 1970s and early 1980s will have their own classic motorcycle racing championship in 2012. The VMCC’s British Historic Racing introduce a new version of this class for the summer season… British Historic Racing – part of the VMCC – have resurrected the BEARS format and incorporated it into the…

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Sir Alan of Cathcart celebrated the Bonneville’s 50th anniversary at the Utah Salt Flats, breaking four FIM World Records for normally aspirated and turbocharged unstreamlined twin cylinder motorcycles… Well respected British bike journalist Alan Cathcart set four officially-recognized FIM World Land Speed Records at the 2009 BUB Bonneville Speed Trials held on the Utah Salt…

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One major track event has been cancelled this year, but there are other opportunity to ride your classic bike around a racetrack. Enter now for the Thundersprint at Darley Moor… Entries are now available for Thundersprint 2014 which will be held at the Darley Moor circuit over the weekend of 10th and 11th May, 2014.…

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Are you interested in Royal Enfield Bullets? Then bag this bargain, and buy three magazines featuring 350, 450 and 500 Enfields for less than a fiver… If you don’t subscribe to RealClassic then you’ll have missed all the articles which appear each month in the printed magazine (they’re different to the ones you read online).…

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If you’d like to display your bike at the forthcoming Stinkwheel RealClassic Bike Show then enter straight away – and save money in the process… The 7th Stinkwheel RealClassic Bike Show will be held on Sunday September 21st 2008, and once again will make the most of the superb location of Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse near Leicester.…

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If you’d like to get your Japanese classic bike ready for the summer shows and still need a vital spare part or ten, then Steve Cooper of the VJMC knows where you’ll find them… Although the VJMC is a Japanese bike club, collectively and individually we have a passion for all motorcycles. If we needed…

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If you spent all winter fettling your P&J, then now is the time to show it off to the world. Come along to one of these summer shows and you could win a RealClassic award… The show season is well under way and, following the success of last summer’s events, we’re sponsoring a range of…

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Preview: National Motorcycle Museum LIVE – 1/11/14 The Brit Bike Museum at Brum hosts a classic biking bonanza on Saturday, with race stars on stage, a chance to win a Vin, try a bike, meet the experts, a whole lot more and FREE admission, too… The 30th anniversary celebrations at the National Motorcycle Museum culminate…

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Friends Fun at the National Motorcycle Museum This coming year will be a busy one for supporters of the British bike museum in Brum, with opportunities to take classic bike tours or learn workshop techniques from the experts… The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, UK, runs a supporters scheme which gives ‘Friends of the NMM’…

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