REALCLASSIC116; PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER 2013

WHAT LIES WITHIN

RC REGULARS

THE CONTENTS PAGE .................................4
We had original intended to do a sort-of theme
issue this time, but ran out of whatever it is
people run out of when they run out of things.
But the theme, THREE 750s, would have been a
bad idea. Oh…

WE’VEGOT MAIL! .....................................14
Place names, little wings, a little technical stuff
from Roger Slater, a myth revealed by Jeff Smith,
a Scott mystery misfire (there’s a surprise) and an
alleged Kawasaki kult. Who could ask for more?

OUTWARD BOUND...................................70
Places to go, roads to ride, people to see, chips
to chew and beer to drink. All the fun of the
wintry show season. See you there!

NEWS.........................................................73
Just a single page this time, because we seem to
be bursting at the seams a little

BACK ISSUES SERVICE............................. 74
There’s a wealth of tales, imagination, fun and
occasional frolics available in the 115 issues of
RC which precede this one. There may also be a
fact or two, and maybe a useful something, but
we’re unsure about that…

READERS’FREE ADS .................................76
A strange collection of bikes offered for sale.

PUBTALK ..................................................98
PUB tackles a testing trial, and takes the Triking
back to its birthplace in homage to its maker…

BENDSWINGIN’.......................................104
Dave Minton wonders whether it’s his age
or his motorcycles that are changing? Were
yesterday’s design standards actually vintage
and is the supremacy of the current ones proof
of superiority? But what, in any case, is a Shifty?

TALES FROM THE SHED..........................109
Struggling with a Matchless? No sparks on the
Triumph? Frank Westworth gives up and goes
for a ride…

ROYAL ENFIELD INTERCEPTOR.................... 6
It’s big, it’s brash and it’s pretty fast. Of course Paul
Miles likes it!

DUCATI 750 SPORT....................................24
Long, loud and proud! ‘Icon’ is an over-used word in
the classic world, but Stuart Urquhart’s been riding
one. It’s very fast, very loud and very yellow…

TRIUMPH T160 TRIDENT............................32
Frank Westworth meets Strider, a Triumph Trident,
and Charlie Webster, who have travelled far and
wide and over many, many years…

JAWA 350 RETRO.......................................42
In a dozen years from 1964 to 1976, the Jawa plant
in Czechoslovakia built more than one million
motorcycles. The bikes which Jawa still build
today share many of their ancestors’ attributes, as
Rowena Hoseason discovers (with lots of help from
Chris Kirby)

HARLEY’S BEESA BOBBER .........................48
A BSA built by Harley? Surely some mistake? Odgie
investigates a back-to-basics big single

MEN OF METTLE ........................................54
Imagine for a moment that you don’t recognise
the rider pictured here. Forget what he’s most
famous for. Richard Jones looks beyond the public
persona to investigate the motorcycling life of an
adventurous young man, born back in the 1880s…

THE GREAT SHED QUEST ...........................64
Graham Ham and the lovely Daisy are heading for
adventure! This time it involves you, too. Graham
reveals all…

SHOWSTOPPERS!.......................................66
All kinds of classics strut their stuff in RC-sponsored
concours classes. Here are some recent winners
who went home from a show with an RC award

TRIUMPH X-75 HURRICANE.......................84
Many a brave man has attempted to make Rowena
Hoseason’s troublesome triple behave itself.
Richard Negus takes up the cudgels, once RH
herself has explained how we come to be starting
in the middle (for the benefit of the people who
came in in the middle…)

MOTO GUZZI LODOLA ...............................92
Stu Thomson returns an 1960s Moto Guzzi single to
the road. This month he explores what he’s bought
and tries not to break too much of it…