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Real Classic - May 2008

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* AJS Model 16MS Grey porridge! You may yell. Indeed. Frank Westworth explains why AMC’s 350 singles sold so well, and why porridge turns out to be enduringly popular
* BSA C15T Matt Vale has written a book about Beesa’s unit singles, and here’s the actual bike he used for inspiration. Has a Ceefer ever been an official muse before? We should be told
* Indian Woodsman OK: we admit it. This isn’t some awesome American big twin. The Indian Woodsman is a marketing ploy from the late 1950s when Royal Enfield sold their Bullets in the USA with different badging. Anarchy explains...
* Rudge-Whitworth Ulster This survivor from the 1930s originally raced on the Isle of Man, from thence it travelled to Canada and then onto California where RC’s American correspondent, Jim Algar, discovered it still being ridden today
* Project Speedster Odgie’s ongoing quest to build a vintafake from a Triumph Tina engine and anything else which wasn’t nailed down reaches a stage of alloy bashing
* 1950 Sunbeam S7 Deluxe Just to be different, the S7 we rode was black (yes, that is an original colour; they weren’t all green). Why did BSA so despise their balloon-tyred gentleman’s tourer, and what’s it like to own today?
* Triumph Trident T150 Never, ever buy an old bike which is missing its kickstarter. There’s always a good reason why its kickstarter is missing, as Brian Oakley discovered
* Ural-BMW Special An owner explains why it isn’t at all straightforward to drop a Boxer engine into a Russian motorcycle chassis

Plus: Steve Wilson remembers a good friend with a Dayton Albatross; Humbernut goes on the VMCC’s Northumbrian Gathering and completes a job of reaming bushes; PUB goes on the 70th Pioneer Run; Dave Minton remembers life with a cammy Velo, and Frank Westworth considers the (lack of) progress on his spAriel rebuild.





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