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Triumph Tiger Cubs: part three

10th September 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews, Road Tests

In the end, everything goes back to the beginning: Paul Henshaw’s Cub career comes full circle… 1979 or so finds BXS 487 with a black petrol tank in between the Trials Cub and the Sports Cub behind Back to BXS 487, my first Cub. Many years had passed when I decided to strip the engine to see what the knocking…

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…

Triumph Tiger Cubs: part one

5th August 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews, Road Tests

In the August issue of RealClassic, Paul Henshaw of Performance Classics gives us his guidelines to living with Triumph famous four-stroke lightweight. And his expertise has been hard-earned; he’s been a Cub enthusiast since his 13th birthday! Here, Paul recalls his early riding life with the tiny Tigers… My inspiration for buying my first Tiger Cub was hearing a local…

BSA Bantam

14th May 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews

Richard Smith recalls his early riding times with BSA’s stalwart two-stroke. He started with a fairly standard D7 Super, but soon the 174cc machine evolved into something a little quicker… My first bike was a Honda C100, the Super Cub; a lovely machine, perfect for learning and nipping around locally. When I left home to start my aero-engineering degree, I…

Royal Enfield Electra-X: Enfield’s underdog

9th May 2021 RowenaH Buying Guide, Features, Retro Classic, Reviews, Your Ride

The Bullet buying guides in RC198 and 199 prompted Keith McKechnie to put electronic pen to paper about his experience with a 2006 Royal Enfield Electra-X. It’s a machine which has become something of an orphan among Royal Enfield enthusiasts, he says: ‘but I’ve grown to like it over the years while sorting out a few problems on the way…’…

RealClassic Reading: Ducati Monster

30th March 2021 RowenaH Features, Reviews

Nearly three decades ago, the first Ducati Monster was unveiled to an admiring public. Since then some 350,000 Monsters have been built. Over time, the Monster’s capacity and configuration has changed considerably. In a substantial new book, Alan Cathcart charts the first half of the Monster’s story… This first volume covers the model’s original conception and its development with the…