Velocette MSS: out of the archive

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If you like the idea of a Velo MAC but need a little more performance than a 350 provides, then Veloce built your ideal bike in the shape of the MSS 500… Velocette is often seen as one of the ‘high class’ marques of classic bike, something of a cut above the ubiquitous parallel twin and far more refined than…
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Books: India, The Shimmering Dream

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In 1933, two students were the first people to ride a motorcycle overland from Europe to India. The story of their epic adventure aboard a 250cc two-stroke offers an ideal escape for riders spending time on the sofa… Max Reisch and his companion Herbert Tichy were determined to travel overland to India through the Middle East in the early 1930s,…
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BSA Rocket Gold Star: out of the archive

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BSA’s classic pre-unit supersports 650 was only manufactured in 1962 and 1963 and has inspired hundreds of enthusiasts to build replicas. So how do you know if you’re looking at a real RGS? At the end of the production run for the 650 pre-unit motor, just before the A65 was introduced, BSA’s customers were clamouring for a top of the…
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Bill Crosby

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We’re sad to say farewell to one of RealClassic’s oldest friends, Bill Crosby, who died last weekend, a month before his 88th birthday. William Charles Crosby was one of the stalwarts of the British and then classic motorcycle scene. For 60 years, he ran Reg Allen Motorcycles in west London, as a Meriden Triumph agent in the early years and…
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Books: Life on a Triumph Speed Twin

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Long-time RC readers will be familiar with the adventures of Graham Ham, whose journeys aboard his 1948 Speed Twin were documented in his ‘Daisy’s Diary’ articles some years ago. But there was much more to Graham’s original and subsequent adventure than simply taking part in the Landmark Challenge on a sprung-hub old clunker, collecting Landmarks, WATOC points and not inconsiderable…
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