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

ELECTRIC Beezer! • It is surely time that a kit was available to electrify your BSA twin. Frank Westworth delighted in riding one such…

NORTON NUMBERS • 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

PRINCES AMONG MEN

BREW & SPROCKET

OLDER & WISER

BROKEN AMC CRANK, CONTINUED

YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND

GO GO, COMMANDO

THE RIGHT ROYAL

A ROYAL BABY

BRAKING BAD

CLEANING UP

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ

UP? DOWN?

ALL THAT GLISTERS • Is BSA's modern Gold Star the 24-carat real deal or more like fool's gold? We sent Ollie Hulme* to find out…

AN OWNER SPEAKS

Lively LIGHT WEIGHT • For a teenager in the 1960s, Greeves' 250 two-stroke twin was a dream machine. These days, its bigger brother could be the perfect country lane classic. Henry Gregson reports…

THE HISTORY BIT

Triple TREAT • Scott famously made strokers, most of them twins. er, they also offered a triple. Alan Cathcart rides and reports…

THE MILLER MUSEUM

THE RED BARON • Jean Rossy couldn't resist this eye-catching ex-military Matchless. Little did he know it was about to teach him many lessons…

SPANISH FLYER • Back in RC202, Alan Singer admitted his addiction to Bultaco motorcycles. Now he updates us with his further adventures in the wide world of the sizzling Spanish strokers…

TRALLA ON TRACK

Unsuitable for motors • RC regular Ian Woolley is always up for a challenge. This one would take him the length and breadth of Britain on an entirely inappropriate motorcycle…

OUTWARD BOUND • Adventures, autojumbles and grand days out: point your wheels this way!

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LEGGERA LUSSO! • Stu Thomson is refurbishing an unusual ohc Italian single. Before delving into its engine internals he takes on the wheels, suspension and such…

Trailer BLAZING • Stuart Francis needed a new trailer to transport his classic bikes so sourced one which was nearly ideal – and then adapted it to suit his situation…

FLAT OUT! • After many months of hard graft, Odgie's awesome B50-based flat-tracker is ready to race. What do you reckon? Does it passmuster? Will it be a world-beater?

LET'S GO RACING!

PUB TALK • Chimney engines. PUB brings us a technical rarity…

TALES FROM THE SHED • Fiddling, fiddling, fiddling with little things, and waiting, waiting for the big thing. Frank's a bit fed up…