RealClassic #132 Out Now

The April issue of RealClassic magazine is our biggest-ever edition, packed with all-new in-depth articles about old British bikes and other intriguing classic motorcycles. Here’s how to locate a copy…

RealClassic magazine isn’t on sale in UK shops – instead it’s available on subscription which means that each monthly magazine costs about the same as a posh coffee (and lasts a fair bit longer). You can of course buy a single issue, and here’s what you’ll find inside the current magazine:-

AJS MODEL 30CSR
Just when Frank Westworth was complaining that there were no fresh original and unrestored bikes around any more, another ones rolls over the horizon. This month, an AMC 650 twin

BSA ROCKET 3 vs HONDA CB750
We all know what happened when BSA-Triumph and Honda went head to head with multi-cylinder superbikes in the Seventies. But which is now the more desirable classic bike? Paul Miles evaluates two iconic 750s, and you may be surprised by which one he prefers

MOTO GUZZI 750 S3
Originally considered disappointing slow and damningly uncomfortable, Guzzi’s S3 use to be dismissed as an irrelevant stop-gap en route to the Le Mans. Nolan Woodbury explains why this once-unloved Guzzi suffers in obscurity no more

ROYAL ENFIELD CONSTELLATION, Part Two
Last month, Stephen Herbert finally secured his own 700cc superbike, ripe for restoration. This time, work starts on the stripping the engine

TRITON TRIBULATIONS
Paul Fishburn worked hard to fulfil his lifetime ambition to own a Triton. Renovating an abandoned 1970s example was far from straightforward. Would it live up to expectations?

TRIUMPH T140 EXECUTIVE
Envious of BMW’s ‘executive’ image? Triumph offered their own touring alternative; the Bonneville Executive complete with fairing, panniers and capacious topbox. Rowena Hoseason performed a management study

VELOCETTE MOV
In eight decades, this 250 single had barely moved more than a few miles from its original home. Henry Gregson meets the machine which has just changed hands for the first time

VETERAN TRIUMPH
A century ago, bold young men were racing bikes like Andy Loosemore’s single-speed, belt-drive 500 around the Isle of Man. No less bold, Andy tackles an equally challenging circuit in the Scottish Highlands

PLUS! Daisy the Triumph Speed Twin and Graham Ham, continue their epic exploration of sheds and the men who inhabit them; Dave Minton considers the me-me-me generation; Frank Westworth sheds light on his Matchless restoration; PUB goes to the Dragon and meets a Wulf; readers discuss Small Heath in the 1950s, Hinckley triples and AMC hybrids, then there’s news, events, reader ads and more.

Buy a copy of RealClassic 132/April 2015

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