March 2008
March 2008   


Real Classic - March 2008

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* BSA B31 & B33 Long term owners of BSA’s 350 and 500cc singles reveal the highs and lows of living with these machines, including plenty of useful info about upgrading the (weedy) front brake, suspension, carb and so forth
* BSA A10 Outfit What happens when you take a perfectly sound BSA Super Rocket 650 and attach a Garrard Grand Prix sidecar to it? Frank Westworth found out
* Norton Dominator 99 Peter Scatchard has owned his 1959 600cc Dommi for 40 years, and after four decades of hard use he felt it deserved a bit of spit ‘n’ polish
* Royal Enfield Trail Bullet Mark Williams gets to grips with a Hitchcock’s 350cc off-roader. It’s 60lb lighter than the standard machine and, despite his initial misgivings, MW finds he actually quite likes it...
* Suzuki GT550 One of the most civilised strokers of the Rising Sun era, the GT550 nevertheless presents something of a challenge if you want to restore one today. And it still smokes, even when rebuilt and fully run in...
* Triumph Speed Twin The unit construction 5TA Speed Twin was the perfect bike for Sue Blanchard, but she couldn’t get the hang of the right-foot gearchange. So husband Dave converted it to left-foot shift, and here’s how he did it

PLUS: Steve Wilson remembers a Girl On A Motorcycle and starts his Ariel-across-Africa project; Odgie cracks on with Project Speedster; Humbernut reconditions girder forks; PUB goes to Chicago; Dave Minton reflects on why Birmingham was the centre of the old industry, and Frank Westworth struggles to get his AJS snow-plough correctly registered...





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