motorcycle books

RealClassic Reading

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RowenaH

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30th June 2025

Looking for brilliant books about bikes to take to the beach? Here’s some suitable suggestions, from touring tales in the Canadian wilderness to MV Agusta’s grand prix racing history, to a fictional roadtrip through the landscape of life… Regular RC readers will be familiar with Nick Adam’s high-mileage meanderings on various old bikes, typically his…
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Build Book Better!

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RowenaH

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24th September 2024

He’s been and gone and done it again. Odgie – aka Crazy Odge, for reasons we can’t possibly comment upon – has just published a new book. Well, a pair of new books. And whereas his earlier book, Confessions Of An Esoteric Engineer, was a wild rollercoaster ride involving but not limited to motorcycles, hotrods,…
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Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

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RowenaH

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28th May 2023

CRAVEN KITS FOR ENFIELD CLASSICS Owners of the current Royal Enfield Classic can now fit vintage-style Craven luggage to their machines, making the popular 350s even more practical. Craven Equipment have already produced fitting kits for the Meteor, Interceptor and Continental models, and now the Classic 350 can be easily equipped with Craven’s stylish and…
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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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RealClassic Reading

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RowenaH

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18th March 2020

‘And The Wheels Went Round’ by John Chisnall and Anthony Davis was published last year. Roy Workman is a sidecar rider so the two racing outfits on the front cover prompted him to buy it… John, the passenger, was the main contributor to the stories with Tony, the rider, adding his thoughts. What a great…
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Deeley: Motorcycle Millionaire

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RowenaH

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30th April 2018

Over a century ago, a bicycle shop on Bromsgrove High Street sowed the seeds which would become Canada’s oldest Harley-Davidson dealership and a multi-generational family business to boot. Roger Slater recommends the book which tells the tale… The name Trevor Deeley in UK motorcycledom will mean nothing. In the United States, and the Pacific north-west…
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Moto Guzzi: Every Model Since 1921

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RowenaH

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23rd March 2018

An extensive list of every single civilian Moto Guzzi model manufactured over the course of nearly a century is going to produce a whopping book – and this is that volume. It starts with the single-cylindered Normale 500 and wraps up with 2017’s California 1400. In between, author Ian Falloon covers an awful lot of…
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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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Vincent Black Shadow

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RowenaH

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12th December 2017

When the Vincent Black Shadow was announced in 1948 it wowed the world with a top speed of 125mph. Since then it’s become accepted as an icon of the old British bike industry. A new book explains how the Black Shadow was originally conceived, developed and produced – with in-depth chapters looking in detail at…
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Torrens: the classic motorcyclist

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RowenaH

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8th December 2017

Back in the days of black and white, when the Green ’Un and Blue ’Un ruled the motorcycling roost, journalist, editor and publisher Torrens was one of the world’s foremost riding writers. We review his memoir, Behind The Scenes In The Vintage Years… Torrens himself, taking part in a Land’s End to John O’Groats trial…
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