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Hammer Time: auction preview

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RowenaH

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18th June 2021

If summer has suddenly arrived and your project isn’t quite ready to roll – or perhaps you’re looking for a new challenge to exercise your spannering skills – then here’s a selection of classic bikes up for grab this month at auction. Many of the machines featured in the HJ Pugh sale have no reserve.…
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BRIGHT LIGHTS & THE LAW

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RowenaH

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24th March 2021

There has been a lot of chatter online about the legality of using LEDs in old bike headlights, following changes earlier this year to the MoT regulations relating to motorcycles. Electrical specialist Paul Goff explains the situation, just as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency leapt into action… The MoT regulations were updated in January…
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DMW & Mr Dawson

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RowenaH

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15th September 2020

Founded in 1940 by Leslie ‘Smokey’ Dawson, DMW was a pioneering British bike builder based in the Black Country – the founder of Dawson Motors Wolverhampton. In three decades, the DMW company manufactured some 15,000 motorcycles including many still used for trials and competition. Smokey started out racing motorcycles in the 1930s and then began…
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Velocette MSS: out of the archive

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RowenaH

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9th April 2020

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…
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Royal Enfield Clipper

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RowenaH

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7th August 2019

Imagine finding a classic British motorcycle, stored for nearly half a century, just like the one your dad rode. That’s how this Clipper found itself a new owner, and Roy Workman tells its tale… This bike was first seen at a Newark autojumble by a friend of Joss, who thought that it was a Bullet.…
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August issue on sale!

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RowenaH

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6th August 2018

This month’s magazine spans seven decades of motorcycling history and features classic bikes built in Britain, Italy and even Japan. Two-strokes, four-strokes; singles, twins and a big fat four – you’ll find all kinds of old bikes ridden, rebuilt and reviewed in RC172. If you already know you want to read this issue, then here’s…
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April issue out now!

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RowenaH

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2nd April 2018

This month’s magazine celebrates big British twins from BSA, Norton and Royal Enfield alongside three 750 triples; two Triumphs and a radical kettle. And if that’s not odd enough, how about BMW’s streamlined bahnstormer, the K1? All that, and the world’s fastest Velocette, the new MoT regulations for classic bikes, and an 80mph vintage single…
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Hammered! Auction report

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RowenaH

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6th February 2018

The most difficult part of writing this report is describing the sheer volume of machines present at this year’s Las Vegas vintage bike auctions. It’s almost overwhelming, with nearly 2000 classic motorcycles offered for sale across two separate events in January. The first of these annual events is staged by the British auction house Bonhams,…
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Show Stoppers: See you at Shepton

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RowenaH

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29th January 2018

The RealClassic Crew will be setting up shop at the 38th Carole Nash Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show this coming weekend – if you come along to the Royal Bath and West Showground at Shepton Mallet, be sure to stop by and say hello! You’ll find the RC Roadshow in the main hall, aka the Showering…
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Frank’s Famous Last Words, #46

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RowenaH

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22nd December 2017

Everyone gets excited by the new project. But take care, say Frank Westworth, a man who has begun more projects than most. It is too easy to stumble along the way especially if, for some bizarre reason, you choose not to restore a Norton… A most excellent friend has just ground to a halt in…
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