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Bikes Reunited: Ural 650

23rd August 2018 RowenaH Features

Once upon a time, David Angel, proprietor of F2 Motorcycles, was a young man in search of a motorcycle. He found it in the back streets of Watford, ‘resting on its rocker covers in a garden with weeds growing through it.’ The machine turned out to be a hard-tailed Ural M66, and the 650 ohv twin was David’s dream bike.…

Vintage To Voltage: a two-wheeled adventure

20th August 2018 RowenaH Features

This autumn, two pioneering spirits will set off on two very different motorcycles on what might turn out to be a wild ride between London and Paris. While one of them will ride a cutting-edge electric-powered machine which comes with all mod cons, the other will be quite literally taking the rough (plenty of it) with the smooth (not so…

Classic Bikes For Sale

13th August 2018 RowenaH Classified, Features

This month’s Small Ad selection is a bumper British bike bonanza, and features half a dozen classic British motorcycles advertised for sale in the RealClassic classifieds. Prices range from under two grand to £7000, so there’s something to suit most classic bike budgets. All of these machines are ready to ride – seize the day and you could clock up…

Inside Triumph’s Motorcycle Factory

13th August 2018 RowenaH Features

The Triumph Visitor Experience opened back in February, and recently my friend John announced he had a spare ticket for the Factory Tour, reports RC regular Richard Jones. This seemed like an excellent opportunity for Tessie the Triumph to return home for a visit. And so it was that John and I both went along on our Triumph T100s on…

Beezumph 2018: Classics On Track

7th August 2018 RowenaH Events, Features

The word ‘unique’ is probably the most over-used, and misused adjective in the English language but it is a wholly and completely accurate way to describe the Beezumph Rally. There is no other event where what can be kindly described as ‘authentically well-used’ road machines sit right alongside £40,000 classic race bikes in complete harmony. Where else in the world…

Classic Continental Motorcycles

26th July 2018 RowenaH Events, Features

Richard Jones concludes his brief exploration of French motorcycles at this year’s VMCC Banbury Run® with some other machines from La Belle France that were on parade. All were, of course, manufactured before Banbury’s 1931 cut-off date, and they include classic bikes built by Peugeot, Terot, and Monet & Goyon… You may have been under the impression from my previous…