Reviews

The Triumph Bonneville is probably the world’s most famous classic bike. RC writer Matt has produced a splendid book on the subject… There are a lot of books about Triumph twins, in case you’d not noticed, but Matthew Vale’s mighty work is a little different. It includes all of the historical material which you would…

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If you’re happy to mix your classic motorcycling with a little personal philosophy, then this book, subtitled ‘Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good’, could be just the job… I was looking out for a book to read on holiday so it was fortunate that I caught a program on…

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Do you fancy something like a Brough Superior for the new millennium? Darren Vickers knows a man who’ll build you one, at a price, of course… A Banquer Superior? Surely he means a Brough Superior, I hear you ask. But no, the Banquer Superior is a brand new motorcycle with all the style and panache…

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A spoof on the Highway Code? Sounds great. But Jim Peace didn’t get too many laughs out of reading it… I use my local charity shop as a library. I buy a book or two, read them, and then give them back. This way I donate a few bob to Cancer Research, and don’t clutter…

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Just about every classic bike fan knows a little about the Brough Superior SS100. But what of its forerunner, the SS80? Dave Minton introduces us to George Brough’s stylish sidevalve V-twin… In 1919 George Brough arrived on the motorcycle scene and brought with him his Brough Superiors. By sweeping up more records on beaches, speedbowls…

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Fancy a challenge? RealClassic Clubman Graham (Man Of Many Doughnuts) certainly did. He bought a single cylinder Beesa as a bit of a restoration project. Actually, it turned out to be quite a lot of a restoration project… To look at the gleaming machine in this picture you’d never think that it spent an awful…

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Phil has spent months and months building his ideal 500cc single off-roader into Gold Star guise. Now NVNL takes it for a spin around the block… Apparently the time has come to put a few thoughts on electronic paper about Phill’s B31. I’d followed the build process avidly through this very website, and as an…

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Kel Boyce looks back upon owning and riding his GT, and compares its engineering to Italian and Japanese machines of the era. Then he decides he quite liked after all… After rebuilding it, I ran the GT for about four years by which time I was ready to move on to something different. The bike…

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The ’24 Horrors’ has something of an appalling reputation, explains Kel Boyce. He bought one, and took it racing… You may know that the single cylinder Ducati was the backbone of 250cc racing, at least during the early years of racing under the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club. The fact that the ‘Duke’ never really stood…

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