As if by magic, a new issue of RealClassic magazine has appeared, featuring a bonanza of old Britbikes and a couple of curiosities from the Continent. Here’s how to buy this month’s mag...

AJS MODEL 31
Frank Westworth’s ongoing rebuild continues as the fettled 650 engine goes back into the frame, and various bits get tightened up and carefully positioned... then taken off again, turned through 90-degrees, tightened up, etc.

ARIEL VB600
The Search For Singular Perfection. Graham Ham and his well-travelled Triumph twin usually ride far and wide in search of adventure. But Graham fancied something singular, something sidevalve, and this is what happened when he found exactly that classic...

BMW R100 RESURRECTION
A rolling, riding and occasionally wrecking restoration in which Duncan Cooper gets to grips with an airhead boxer. In part six, he takes to the high road to see if it will actually survive a really long ride

BSA A10 UPGRADE
Paul Miles offers an upgrade for the mechanically inept; fitting a primary belt drive to a BSA A10. If he can manage it...

IVORY CALTHORPE REBUILD
Alan Freke tackles a considerable challenge as he rebuilds a very rare 1935 Ivory Calthorpe Minor 250. Part Three: the trouble with tinware

NORTON MODEL 18
Rowena Hoseason has always wanted a big British single. But starting them previously proved problematic. Finally, she succeeds with a 1948 tele/rigid OHV 500. Shame about the missing gear...

PUCH SVS 175
A single cylinder, but with two barrels, pistons, carbs and exhausts. It must be a Puch. Ashley Cutler uncovered a rare delight.

ROYAL ENFIELD SUPER METEOR
One man’s carefully-crafted special is another man’s horror story. Frank Westworth has been out breaking a far-from-standard Royal Enfield twin.

TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE
The Hinckley café racer of the mid-1990s is considered by some to be an outstanding icon of recent times. ‘Ah, but is it really a classic?’ Paul Miles tackles a Triumph triple and the tribulations of rhetoric.

PLUS Martin Peacock consider what happens as winter draws on*; Aspin in the New Forest and Douglas goes grasstracking; the way of a motorcyclist, being drive chains and their faithlessness, electrics and their deceits and Dave Minton’s hapless nature in the face of breakdowns; anti-ethanol tank sealants; fitting electric start to a T140 (or not); books about Enfields and engineering drawings; and 961 Commandos spotted on the street shock!