motorcycle adventure

RealClassic Reading: Going The Wrong Way

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RowenaH

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14th February 2021

Part travelogue, part coming of age adventure, this book explores the physical and inner journeys of a young man who left Belfast aboard a café racer Moto Guzzi in the early 1970s… In part this book was irritating because the author did his big trip when he was 21 and 21 year old males are…
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Lockdown rides: the roads less ridden

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RowenaH

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1st August 2020

While most of the world was in strict quarantine, RC regular Nick Adams enjoyed a little more latitude in Ontario, Canada. He could still take to the open road, providing he also took sensible precautions. Long distance trips were out of the question so Nick took the opportunity to revisit familiar locations, closer to home.…
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Classics in Cuba

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RowenaH

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5th May 2019

In what might be a cunning plan to seduce the younger generation to the dark side of motorcycling, one RC reader asked his offspring to keep an eye peeled for interesting old bikes on his travels in Cuba. And this is what Vincent Wood discovered… I haven’t had to do homework on holiday since I…
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Classic Motorcycle Adventures

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RowenaH

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13th November 2018

You might imagine that climbing the Eiger is enough of an adventure but, back in the day, mountaineer Don Whillians thought nothing of riding his Triumph Trophy two-up across Europe before making the attempt… The photos hereabout show Chris (now Sir) Bonington on the pillion of Don Whillans’s Triumph Trophy at Hampstead in July 1962.…
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Vintage To Voltage: a two-wheeled adventure

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RowenaH

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20th August 2018

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)…
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Triumph Speed Twin

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RowenaH

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14th March 2018

Opportunities like this one come along very rarely – so stand ready to seize the day! You have until 8.30pm on 22nd March 2018 to bid on this one-of-a-kind Triumph, the Speed Twin which carried RealClassic writer and long distance rider Graham Ham almost a quarter of a million miles all over Britain and Europe……
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Lois On The Loose

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RowenaH

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8th February 2018

A modern-day motorcycle adventurer, Lois Pryce has crossed continents and survived all manner of mayhem to tell the tale — in fact, to tell three tales. Roger Slater has endured sleepless nights, reading her books… One of my ways of judging a good book is observing how far along the page marker is. If I…
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Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

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RowenaH

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22nd January 2018

Moto Guzzi’s Nuovo Falcone is a solidly put-together 500 single. It’s far from fast, but it’s famous for going on forever. That’s just as well. When RC’s Canadian correspondent, Nick Adams, goes for a ‘short trip’ on the unpaved roads around Quebec, the miles soon mount up… Whenever I ride the Nuovo Falcone I’m always…
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Around The World On A Motorcycle

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RowenaH

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11th January 2018

Ready for another armchair adventure? This travellers’ tale goes back 90 years to the era between the world wars, when the urge for international exploration led two young men to ride more than 100,000 miles aboard a flat-tank Harley and sidecar. Roger Slater has been reading of their exploits… I have one bedroom in the…
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Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

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RowenaH

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20th December 2017

Back in the early 1980s, Elspeth Beard took her broken heart, packed up her BMW airhead boxer, and rode it the ‘wrong way’ around the world. The entire astonishing story has recently been published, and it’s wowing RC readers… I love travelogues, ‘round the world’ trip even more. Was Elspeth Beard truly the first British…
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