December 2009
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Real Classic - December 2009

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* Ariel Leader: It's finished! Really! Honestly. The end. Our project Leader takes to the roads and we declare it done. For now...

* Laverda 750 Twin: The SFC can be hard to come by and not entirely easy to live with, so here's the sensible option: a rip-roaring replica in orange

* Panther On Tour: You can rely upon a classic motorcycle as charismatic and quirky as a Panther sloper to develop electrical gremlins at a height of 1500 metres in the Alps, and then for the big end to start knocking half way into Hungary

* Norton Commando: This rebuild was going to be a six-part series, but this is part five and there still seems to be a big gap in the middle of the rolling chassis where one might hope an engine would lurk. Nice wheels, mind

* Norton Model 19: Two bikes with one name: Norton's big single enjoyed two incarnations. It takes quiet a bit of enthusiasm to keep the 1930s version in roadgoing trim, so we consider the 1950s version too

* Triumph Bonneville I: To celebrate this most famous motorcycle's half century, Roland Brown reviews 50 years with a friend

* Triumph Bonneville II: During the final years of the original factory's life, the men of Meriden pretty much only built Bonnevilles of one stripe or another. Steve Wilson considers the inside story of the workers' co-operative

* Triumph Bonneville III: The name remains the same, but the Hinckley twin is a very different motorcycle to its illustrious forebears. Roland rides the current 865cc example

* Veteran Motorcycles: In the first of a two part mini-series, Claire Leavey meets a 1909 Triumph TT flat-tanker and wonders what's so attractive about an overgrown bicycle with an engine...

Plus: The Norton Challenge reaches its finale, PUB considers Vincent trials bikes, Dave Minton's all-time top motorcycle, Frank Westworth encounters carbon locking, readers write about frames, concours standards, mirrors, Moto Guzzis, centrestands, Enfields and more...





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