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In this month’s magazine you’ll find vintage and classic bikes from almost every era and all over the place, including a vintage AJS, Norton 750 superbike, BSA and Triumph 650 twins, an unusual Italian single and an extremely strange Sunbeam scooter…

AERMACCHI SPRINT
Is this nimble 250 single more Italian or American? Or a hybrid of the best of both? Or the worst of all worlds? Paul Miles rides and reports

AJS MODEL B
It’s all about vintage charm. There are ways of going, of getting around, going to places. Martin Peacock has been learning how to get around in the style of the 1920s

BSA A10
Golden Flash or Super Rocket? Henry Gregson had a bad experience with an A10, back in the day. Was it just a one-off? He aims to find out, once and for all, by trying a pair of similar 650 twins for size

MATCHLESS G80 REBUILD
Work in The Shed continues sporadically. Frank Westworth tackles his AMC single’s centrestand, swinging arm spindle and such

NIMBUS REBUILD, Part Four
Lasse Horskjær rescued a rare Danish relic from the scrapheap, after it was written off as being uneconomic to repair. This month; timing is everything…

NORTON ATLAS
Norton’s first 750 twin: an over-muscled oaf? An intercontinental ballistic missile? A Greek god shouldering the weight of the world? Stuart Urquhart rides and decides…

ROYAL ENFIELD REBUILD, Part One
Take a modern(ish) Bullet, throw away all the bits you don’t like and create your own café racer. That’s exactly what one RC reader did, and this month he explains the logic behind his bodywork and styling choices

SUNBEAM SCOOTER
The owner of this extraordinary scooter, which started life as an unusual BSA in the first place, knew exactly what he wanted nearly forty years ago. And time hasn’t dulled that vision, as Odgie discovers

TRIUMPH TR6P
Some bikes deserve their reputations, while others do not. The Triumph twins which preceded the oil-in-frame models may be among the marque’s very best bikes. Frank Westworth was refreshed by riding a 1970 model, originally a police machine but now in civilian trim

PLUS! We time-travel back to 1932 and take a stroll around the Olympia Show, where austerity and technological advances influenced the shape of that year’s new models; attend a classic bike auction and find that most machines sell for surprisingly reasonable sums; Dave Minton goes on an imaginary escapade (at least, we hope it’s imaginary); PUB drops by at Andy Tiernan’s place, and readers write about cammy Nortons, old-fashioned fairings, the ideal degreaser, and more…

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