June 2011
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Real Classic - June 2011

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There is no real theme to this month’s magazine. It’s just full of interesting old motorcycles, and what people do with them. There IS something of a theme to the July issue, but you’ll have to come back in a month to buy that one!

THE CONTENTSPAGE
My favouritepage, this one. Because it means that if we’re filling in the gaps here then the rest of the magazine is finished. A very good thing.Where’s the chocolate?

BLACKARIELS
Ariels are excellentmotorcycles. There are those who claim that the Black Ariels are the best of the best. Roy Plowman rides one. FrankWestworth sat him down and asked him about it. They met at a pub. The sun shone...

LAVERDASF
‘Italian motorcycles are innately superior to the lesser offerings of other countries.’This is the stated view of Paul Miles, and when we asked him to justify it, this is what hewrote...

MATCHLESS G2CSR
It has long been fashionable to be dismissiveof AMC lightweight 250 singles. But they can be rewarding and absorbing, as Simon Holyfield reports...

PANTHERMODEL100
Here, Kitty, KittyKitty... David Dickie onceowned his dream Panther. And then he sold it. And then it took 30 years to find the correct big cat to replace it...

MILITARYTRIUMPH 350
BSA supplied theirWDB40 single for the British Army to use through the 1960s. Triumph supplied their ownmilitarymachine to the DutchArmy. Christopher Kirbymakes sense of it all...

OVERTHE HILL
Graham Ham and his well-travelled Triumph, sometimes knownasDaisy, ride far and wide in search of adventure. Andhaggis. Yes, really...Part Three: Chairs, wheelbarrows and BSAs...

ROYALENFIELD FURY
TheRoyal Enfield Bullet undergoes its most radical makeover yet to create the new Fury flat-tracker. Rowena Hoseason covers some cross-countrymiles

ROYALENFIELD OPENDAY
Fury galore!Well. Something like that. TheRCCrew will be around all weekend, eating curree, drinking coffee and (just maybe) riding bikes! Come and join us?

BMWR100 RESURRECTION
There is a steadily increasing number of riders who really rate the air-headBMWboxer twins.Why? Duncan Cooper explains this. PartTwo: MoT-time, and The Intermittent Fault...

NORTONCOMMANDOREVISITED
MatthewValespentalongtime raising hisCommando, Swampy, fromthedead.Afteradecent interval,hehas startedtomake its lifeevenbetter.PartTwo:MoreofThe FamousDevelopmentProgramme...

WE’VEGOTMAIL!
Long letters, short letters; clever letter, bonkers letters; letters with questions, letters with answers. They are all here. All your ownwork!

OUTANDABOUT
Busy, busy, busy. Places to go, things to see, bikes to ride and riders to meet. The calendar is full up and there’s a loads to look forward to!

IT’STHE NEWS!
Stuff, nonsense, and then some more stuff and nonsense. The best news is thatwegot the issue done on time!

READERS’FREE ADS
All sorts of bikes here. Some of them very unusual and interesting (Hesketh Vampire, anyone?). No rotaryNortons, though, so it looks like FW isn’t skint enough yet...

PUBTALK
Prescott Motorcycle Festival, and Morgan launch their new three-wheeler (but not up the hill!)...

BENDSWINGIN’
Forty two years ago, when Dave Minton wasamere lad of thirty and hungry foramotorcycling diet richer than was the norm, on a BSA Rocket Three he took to the German autobhanen and Munich, wherehewould park itwithBMW. Then he would put the new 750cc R75 through its paces on his way to the Italian Grand Prix at Monza...

TALES FROMTHE SHED
All dramatic life is here inThe Shed. Blood, fury, knackered knuckles. FrankWestworthhas been applying the hammer again...

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