Reviews

  • Brough Superior SS80

    Brough Superior SS80

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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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  • 1950 BSA B33

    1950 BSA B33

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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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  • 1956 BSA B31 Scrambler Rebuild – Part 13

    1956 BSA B31 Scrambler Rebuild – Part 13

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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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  • Royal Enfield Continental GT 250 – Part 5

    Royal Enfield Continental GT 250 – Part 5

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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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  • 1956 Norton Dominator Diary, Chapter 10

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    Jim Algar was galloping on with his restoration on a Norton twin. And then he discovered that his cylinder head has… shrunk! What next? Time, I think, to add the crowning glory to the now installed engine; the cylinder head. Ah, the infamous Norton cylinder head. Gather round, children, and I’ll tell you a story…a…

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  • Mototrans Ducati 250cc 24 Horas – Part 1

    Mototrans Ducati 250cc 24 Horas – Part 1

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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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  • Royal Enfield Super 5, Part 1

    Royal Enfield Super 5, Part 1

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    Russ Gannicott gets a yen to go classic racing, so finds himself an unusual 250cc Royal Enfield and starts prepping it for action… I guess it all started when I was sixteen, riding my new FSIE back and forth across the New Forest to attend Brockenhurst sixth form college. Every morning at around the half…

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  • Greeves: The Complete Story by Colin Sparrow

    Greeves: The Complete Story by Colin Sparrow

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    RealClassic magazine contributor Colin Sparrow has been quiet for a while, busy compiling his extensive marque history about Greeves motorcycles. There’s precious little Greeves information generally available, so this book will be a boon to owners and enthusiasts… In 25 years from the early 1950s through to the end of the 1970s, Greeves produced less…

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  • 1973 Honda CB350 Four

    1973 Honda CB350 Four

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    When you buy an old bike, you’re also buying a lifetime of history. Carmen Sheppard gets to know her classic Honda… It was 1999 and I was 22 when I bought the CB350F. To be honest, I wasn’t looking for a classic bike. Just something that was about 400cc-ish, around £1000 and nice and friendly…

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  • Kawasaki Z900 A4

    Kawasaki Z900 A4

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    Easy to work on, good handling, but infested with an electrical gremlin. Is Mark White really talking about a Kawasaki Zed One? What’s one of the commonly-held attributes which unites classic bike owners, no matter what sort of classic they ride? It has to be pride of ownership, and Mark White of Wiltshire is certainly…

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