royal enfield

  • New Issue Out Now!

    New Issue Out Now!

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    Your May magazine has just been published and is now available for mail-order or digital delivery. In just a couple of clicks, you could read all about… what might be the most beautiful motorcycle ever built, the ideal ‘twilight bike’, a really rare racer and a Panther which came in from the cold As usual,…

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  • Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

    Plugs & Leads: news from the classic motorcycling scene

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    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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  • Royal Enfield V-Twins

    Royal Enfield V-Twins

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    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…

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  • New BSA Gold Star: available in August?

    New BSA Gold Star: available in August?

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    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…

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  • A Continental Conundrum

    A Continental Conundrum

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    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…

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  • Single-minded musings

    Single-minded musings

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    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…

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  • Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

    Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

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    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……

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  • Royal Enfield Clipper

    Royal Enfield Clipper

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    Imagine finding a classic British motorcycle, stored for nearly half a century, just like the one your dad rode. That’s how this Clipper found itself a new owner, and Roy Workman tells its tale… This bike was first seen at a Newark autojumble by a friend of Joss, who thought that it was a Bullet.…

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  • New Year: Old Bikes

    New Year: Old Bikes

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    This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Vintage Stony gathering on January 1st at Stony Stratford. Richard Jones hauled his Triumph out of winter hibernation, seeking respite from ‘retail therapy’ among a splendid selection of vintage and classic motorcycles and cars… Let’s start with this 1939 ohv 250cc Red Panther which was restored by…

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  • Royal Enfield Meteor Minor

    Royal Enfield Meteor Minor

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    Some of you may remember the story of a Royal Enfield Meteor Minor which appeared many years ago on the RC site, written by one ‘Gerry Attric’. As a young boy I always remember seeing my father’s motorbike in the garage under a cover, gathering dust. Some days, if the weather was nice and he…

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