motorcycle travel

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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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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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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Riding lives: sharing the journey

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RowenaH

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29th May 2020

Like many motorcycle riders, Len rode alone because his partner wasn’t happy on the pillion. A sidecar proved to be the solution…
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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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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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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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