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Velocette LE: He rode for 20 years in the fast lane, and then PaulG80 discovered an entirely different world with Matilda the Matchless… After 18 months of being off the road while rebuilding my BMW (which is an entirely different and very long boring story), I was getting an extremely itchy throttle hand. My Dad took pity on me and…

This book promises ‘the definitive guide to the repair and calibration of Smiths magnetic speedos and tachos’ so you can ‘fix it yourself and never have to pay or wait for repairs again.’ An intrepid RC reader put it to the test… After several well-known repairers had told me that they only worked on chronometric type speedometers, I decided to…

In 1932, Robert Fulton Jr set off aboard a Douglas twin on a round the world ride from England to America. The essence of that adventure is revealed in images in this rarely-seen hardback book… Many of us will be familiar with the globe-trotting adventure of Robert E Fulton Jr, whose epic journey of the early 1930s was told in…

Not your usual history about the usual suspects, says Dave Minton, but the essence of inspiring motorcycling lives distilled for your elucidation… In 1956 I was walking through Preston when an outfit purred past, sounding more docile from its single fishtail pipe than I imagined, in my youth, that any motorcycle had a right to. Moreover, it sported twin rear…

Mention Brough Superiors and TE Lawrence and you run the danger of disappearing under pomp and circumstance. Not so with this charming, enthusiast’s DVD… Are you cheesed off by the snore-ripping attempts by certain bogus video makers who think that they can cash in on our weakness for old motor cycles? I am. I’m steaming livid! You probably know the…

Bru Enzer is best known to the RealClassic world as ‘Laverdabru’, and so it was almost inevitable that this book would land in his lap at some point… Us Laverda owners and fanciers are not best provided for on the books front. My personal collection, after years of Mirage ownership, comprises a photocopy of Tim Parker’s original handbook (known as…