Category: Reviews

Jim Algar’s Dominator Diary start here: the first (and hopefully not the last) of a sporadic, irregular series of reports, updates, musings, questions, tirades, victories and defeats as an American neophyte takes on his first classic British bike… Chapter One Wherein I immerse myself in all things Norton, and my newly-acquired Dominator suddenly reveals feet of clay (well… crankcase of…

If at first you don’t succeed (and indeed your Bantam conks out before it even leaves Europe), try, try, try again. And then write a book about the experience… When it comes to adventuring – and I don’t just mean motorcycle adventuring – there is an unspoken compact between the few-who-do, and the many. The many, typically, don’t. Don’t go…

When we put together a feature for the magazine about the Seeley Honda 750 of the late 1970s, there were some photos which we didn’t have space for. And then, even more info arrived… The January 2006 issue of RealClassic magazine features two (count ’em!) examples of the Seeley breed – and one of them is the blue version you…

After falling in love with the dream of a Beam, Steve The Toast finally bought an S8. The reality turned out to be just a little… leaky! Madness is said to run in families. It is thought to be genetic, but many other things can also bring it on; diets lacking in certain vitamins, over indulgence in alcohol and drugs,…

All that glitters… is usually a pain in the posterior. And the pocket! David Rooney learned this lesson when he bought a beautiful-looking T20… You know those adverts, the ones which say; ‘just needs finishing’? Well, David Rooney knows all about them now, after being seduced by the charms of a shiny-shiny 1961 Tiger Cub. The story starts — as…

So Dave had just taken his first ride on his rebuilt Triumph Tiger… and then he stopped to look at it. Ooops… After riding (on a bubblewrap seat) to the end of the road and back, I decided to let the engine run for a few minutes so that I could get the tickover adjusted on the carb. This was…