motorcycle touring

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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Books: Life on a Triumph Speed Twin

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RowenaH

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30th March 2020

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,…
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A Classic Ride

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RowenaH

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20th February 2020

Do you need a modern motorcycle to go touring? Hardly. Mark Redfern and his pals from the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club take a selection of classic Hondas on a whistlestop tour to the Continent… One winter, the riders of the Taunton and Bridgwater section of the VJMC concocted a plan to visit the Menin Gate…
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A Rider’s Life

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RowenaH

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10th October 2018

‘I just take what life throws at me. And throw it back!’ So says Heather, who doesn’t own a car but instead clocks up thousands of miles every year on old bikes. Her first motorcycle was a humble BSA C11, but these days she more often seen aboard her touring Brough Superior SS80 or the…
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October Issue Out Now

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RowenaH

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1st October 2018

British bikes and Continental classics share the stage in RC174, which features a trad Brit twin, all manner of idiosyncratic Italians, an unusual BMW airhead, several superb sporting singles and a smoky old two-stroke tiddler. If you already know you want to read this issue, then here’s where to order it in paper or digital…
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September Issue On Sale

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RowenaH

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3rd September 2018

If motorbike magazines played poker, then the new issue of RC would be a winner – with several singles, a trio of twins, a triple and a four. Full house, surely? Or maybe it’s bingo we’re thinking of? Either way, RC173 is stacked full of cracking classic bikes. Hit the button to start reading about…
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Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

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RowenaH

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26th January 2018

Nick Adams has been riding the unpaved logging roads through Quebec’s forests on his Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone. Would a modern adventure motorcycle have been a better choice of two-wheeled transport for this trip? As with the road to Parent, the 120 miles of road between Parent and La Tuque was a well maintained gravel…
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Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

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RowenaH

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24th January 2018

Last time, Nick Adams set off on his Moto Guzzi Falcone 500 for a quick spin around the logging roads of Quebec. This time, the traffic comes closer than is entirely comfortable… Parent is a typical, small, isolated railway village: a scattering of houses and public buildings bisected by the railway, the heart and focus…
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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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An Enfield Excursion, Part the Last

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RowenaH

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27th July 2017

Stuart and Ian have taken their Enfield Bullets on an extended sprint around Scotland. Another couple of riders join the fray: time for a spot of bike-swapping before Stuart’s Bullet mysteriously starts to lose power… Day Three: 156 miles While Doug was engaged in the trappings of business, Ian and I took off for a…
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