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The Great British public seem to have bought a basket case. Phil Speakman* applies his experience with old clunkers to the current credit crisis-crash-crunch kerfuffle… I, just like many others out there in RealClassic land, am a member of an intimate little syndicate (of approximately sixty million members) who recently stepped in to save a historic old machine, in the…

How did Japan’s motorcycle industry come to inherit the market position which the British bike business once held? Steve Cooper of the VJMC makes some suggestions… If you had to single out one attribute about Japanese machinery which really inspires owners it has to be the technology that made the manufacture of these bikes possible. The Japanese approached motorcycle manufacture…

Even though more of us fell off last year, motorcycling is getting safer. Fact. Martin Gelder wades through the Department for Transport Road Casualties Report to find out what causes motorcycle accidents… The Department for Transport’s annual report on road casualties in Great Britain came out last month. Most of the press reports at the time concentrated on the reduction…

“IF you can torque your head when all about you, Are warping theirs and blaming it on you…” So wrote Dockyard Kipling, with a bit of help from Dave off of the RC Message Board… IF you can torque your head when all about you Are warping theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when ‘er…

Do you know anyone who commits the motorcycling equivalent of cold-blooded murder? KarlB knows a few criminals… I have a confession to make. I know people, I even call some of them friends, who are killers. One of them lives not very far from here; you probably have someone similar living near you. These killers start their murder early in…

Ric Pirson owns a Hinckley Triumph Bonneville, and tells a sad tale of not seeing the light… In May 1980 I bought a new Honda CX500. Why? Well I’ve often wondered but it was a Honda and it never let me down. In the summer of 2001 my thoughts wandered to a new bike. I don’t like to rush these…