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Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

Events, Features, New & Features, News
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 durable topbox and panniers. The…
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Royal Enfield V-Twins

Features, From The Archive
Vintage Royal Enfield V-twins feature front and centre in the January issue of the magazine. Here’s a little bit of history from behind the scenes at the factory, way back in the 1930s… Many thanks to RC regular Robert Murdoch for scouring the Royal Enfield Owners’ Club archive to uncover these images from the Model K’s ancient history. There wasn’t…
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New BSA Gold Star: available in August?

Features, News
The new BSA Gold Star single was the star of the show at Brooklands this month, and more details about the brand-new heritage model are being announced almost every day. The dohc liqud-cooled is being built by Classic Legends, a subsidiary of the Mahindra Group. Earlier this month they appointed an exclusive UK distributor, an offshoot of Motorcycles Direct /…
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A Continental Conundrum

News
RC reader Ray is getting to grips with his second Royal Enfield rebuild. He’s building up a 250 Continental GT from boxes of bits. All was going swimmingly, until he unwrapped the bodywork to reveal a colour scheme of an unusual hue… Ray’s previous project: sadly missed! We have all heard of ‘buyer’s remorse’, and most people involved with classic…
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Single-minded musings

Features
Over the years, many of Stu Thomson’s motorcycles have been powered by single cylinder motors. He’s owned and ridden trad British bikes like Velocette’s Venom, sporty Italian classics from Moto Guzzi and Aermacchi, and modern classics from Enfield and the Far East. So what can Stu conclude after trying so many different types of single-cylinder motorcycle? Before the multi-cylinder machines…
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Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

Road Tests
Few modern motorcycles have attracted as much attention in the classic world as the Royal Enfield 650 twins. Husband and wife John and Anne like the Interceptor so much they bought a matching pair! John reveals why and how, and Anne explain why the Enfield was so much better for her than a Hinckley Bonneville… I’ve always ridden bikes and…
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