ARIEL NH REBUILD
After many months of nuffink much going on, there has been a veritable blaze of activity in Frank Westworth’s Shed involving primary and drive chains, an engine shock absorber and a clutch of cables

BMW R100
Take a 35 year-old BMW Boxer to Spain. Find a desert. Ride across it. Martin Gelder explains why you don’t need to have an adventure bike to have an adventure

BSA BANTAM BUILD
Part three: bending and straightening metal and a quick spot of mudguard manipulation

DUCATI 900SS
The cliché ‘racer for the road’ actually does apply to Ducati’s 900SS. Paul Miles falls in love again, this time for a slender Italian with very few frills

MATCHLESS SILVER HAWK
A pre-war Matchless, Part Two. Rebuilding and then riding this very rare British V4

NORTON 19S
A half-century with the same bike? It must be love. Joe Gray describes long-term life on the long stroke with a seriously big single, his swinging-arm 1957 ONV machine

ROYAL ENFIELD IGNITION
Stephen Herbert has been upgrading his Royal Enfield Electra-X. One thing led to another, until eventually he ran aground on the rocky shores of the automatic ignition timing

TRIUMPH TWINS
The Meriden Co-operative built their last bike thirty years ago, in August 1983. Frank Westworth has a look at some of the later classic Triumphs, at the range that never was, and remembers how they ride

SCOTT SQUIRREL REBUILD
Part Two in which the owner gets to grip with his magneto and how to set up the timing

VELOCETTE VENOM
It’s a century since the creation of the Velocette. To celebrate the centenary of a legend, the VMCC are giving away a Venom, and Rowena Hoseason rode it

PLUS a free Bantam booklet; groovy summer strides; reader ads; a special guest column from Jim Reynolds (as DLM was rushed off his wheels this month); and some spiffy pics of readers’ classics in the most unusual places…