September 2011
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Real Classic - September 2011

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This month’s magazine features, as usual, an eclectic mix of running, riding and rebuilding RealClassic motorcycles. Here’s what’s inside...

BMW R100 RESURRECTION
A rolling, riding and occasionally wrecking restoration in which Duncan Cooper gets to grips with an airhead boxer. In part five, there’s a worrying noise from the tappet dept...

IVORY CALTHORPE REBUILD
Alan Freke tackles a considerable challenge as he rebuilds a very rare 1935 Ivory Calthorpe Minor 250. Part Two: investigating Ivory...

MATCHLESS G11
Matchless twins offered their original buyers style, comfort and performance. Frank Westworth rides a 600cc Super Clubman, wondering whether they offer the same delights today...

NORTON DOMINATORS
The Norton Model 7, 77, 88 and 99. If ever there was an iconic British twin, this Norton is it. But there are lots of Dominators; which to choose? Rowena Hoseason helps out...

PANTHER 120 SPECIAL
Operation Bobcat. Panthers are of course cats. Cats ruffle feathers. Shaun Veness is unafraid of feather ruffling with his much-modded Panther

ROYAL ENFIELD-RICKMAN INTERCEPTOR
Take a traditional British parallel twin engine in its most developed state, add a mighty road-race bicycle, and you’ve got something special. Also orange. Paul Miles considers a big beast...

ZUNDAPP KS601 OUTFIT
The fastest German sidecar machine of the 1950s, the ‘Green Elephant’ win all sorts of ISDT and other championships. This one has a Swallow Jet 80 sidecar attached

PLUS Graham Ham rides across America in search of chilli-dogs; readers remember Bond Mini-Cars and suggest more two-strokes; new RC tees are available; details of MCC trials; PUB goes to the Festival of 1000 Bikes; Frank Westworth tells tales from the saddle, and Dave Minton wraps up this issue at the Norfolk Motorcycle Museum. CBM





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