Real Classic

RealClassic magazine features the very best British motorcycles from all eras, plus charismatic Continental machines (and the odd Japanese classics crops up occasionally, too). Long term classic riders will recognise many of the members of the RC team, which includes authors, historians and journalists like Steve Wilson, Dave Minton, Matt Vale, Odgie, Jacqueline 'PUB' Bickerstaff, Rowena Hoseason and editor Frank Westworth -- but the magazine's key feature is that it is firmly grounded in the real world. Our articles are written by real life riders and reflect far more than a simple road test ever can. We're never scared of getting grubby in The Shed (and we even admit it when things go horribly wrong!)

Real Classic

FROM THE FRONT

Falling IN LOVE AGAIN • Electric starter? Twin disc brakes? Easy-adjust Isolastics? Frank Westworth renews a long-lost acquaintance…

STARTLING STARTING

INCOMING! • RC readers write, rant and rattle on… Summat to say? Send your comments, hints, tips, tales of woe and derring-don't to: RCHQ@RealClassic.net

ESCAPADES ON AN OUTFIT

NOSTALGIA!

SIMPLY DIPPY!

SERVICE STAR!

ANOTHER AFS

QUESTIONS!

SUPERMONO!

LIGHTENING UP

CHALLENGING

IMPROVING AN ENFIELD

NORSUP Punch • Norton never built a girder-forked, rigid rear, ohv V-twin… so someone else did. Has Paul Miles finally met his Match(less)?

IT'S THE REAL THING! • Take a race engine, install it in a race frame, and announce it as a road bike. Alan Cathcart meets the Condor

The GOLDEN Vibe • Last month, we explored how BSA's cult café racer came into existence, when the factory followed Eddie Dow's example and implanted the A10 twin engine into the Gold Star chassis. This time, Rowena Hoseason introduces an owner who's been rebuilding one for close-on a quarter century…

THINKING OF BUYING?

HNTR • Royal Enfield have just invented a new word. Ian Woolley decided to translate letters into a riding reality, and set out for a day's ride…

CUB SWEAT & GEARS • Many old bike enthusiasts will have a dark secret hidden in the back of the shed: the not-quite-finished project, set aside in days gone by. Paul Henshaw's Trials Cub had an irritating glitch, thirty years ago. Can he fix it now?

MUTABLE MABSA • Odgie is building a lighter rolling chassis to house the Matchless motor and gearbox in Scott Speed's flat-track race bike. This month's episode is all about attaching things to other things and making sure they don't get too cosy…

SUPER SINGLE • Last month, Stu Thomson secured an Italian-built café racer. Now it's time to take it all apart…

PUB TALK • A troublesome Pioneer and a cold Classic Mechanics Show.

TALES FROM THE SHED • When all else fails, fettle a Matchless. Frank's been marking time, or something…

Ollie's ODDJOBS • Grom. Grom? Grom! Ollie discovers a strange new (small) world…