RealClassic #133 Out Now

In this month’s RC magazine: old Brits, old Italians, shiny bikes, scruffy bikes, airheads, enthusiasts and experts. Here’s how to buy a copy and what you’ll find inside…

BSA B31 ROADTEST
A stalwart survivor from the days of Civil Defence, this 350 single appears to be pretty much as it was when it left Small Heath back in 1956

BMW R65 REBUILD
Last year, Dave Simmons bought what he thought was a budget BMW. Then he decided he really rather liked it. So that meant he needed to lavish some attention and a tiny bit of cash on it. Suddenly it’s not so much of a bargain Bimmer

LAVERDA JOTA OWNER REPORT
If you’ve never so much as ridden a Laverda, then it’s a brave thing to take the plunge with the renovation of a big triple. Reader Tim Pickering engaged the expertise of an Australian expert to bring a 1981 Series 2 Jota back from the brink

NORTON DOMINATOR OWNER REPORT
Some ‘specials’ don’t start out that way. They’re just old bikes which evolve over time. Paul Goff first built this Norton twin forty years ago, and he’s been meaning to finish the job ever since

ROYAL ENFIELD CONSTELLATION, Part Three
Stephen Herbert secured a 700cc superbike, ripe for restoration. The engine has been reassembled and is back in the frame, but there are several outstanding issues relating to the magneto, carb and rocker oil feed…

SUNBEAM MODEL 90
Although Sunbeam motorcycles were built throughout the 1930s, and the name was revived after the Second World War, the firm’s glory days were firmly rooted in earlier decades. The TT Model 90 was one of Sunbeam’s last true winners, a sporting twin-port single

TRIUMPH T100SS OWNER REPORT
Familiar with newer Japanese machines, Tim Ellis had a hankering for an old Brit. His initial experiences with a unit construction Triumph 500 twin weren’t exactly encouraging, but perseverance paid off

VELOCETTE VENOM
It takes experience and expertise to get the best from some classic bikes. We meet a Velocette virtuoso, who reveals a few of his spannering secrets learned during the restoration of his 1958 sports single

PLUS! Daisy the Triumph Speed Twin and Graham Ham, continue their epic exploration of sheds and the men who inhabit them; Dave Minton says farewell to Cyril Ayton; Frank Westworth finally hears his Matchless G80 run, and PUB considers some pioneering motorcycles. On top of all that, RC readers chat among themselves about all sorts of things vaguely related to old bikes…

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