RealClassic #138 on sale

The October issue of RealClassic magazine is available now, with a stack of posh shiny show-stoppers up the front and a bunch of scruffy old nails at the back. And Jeff Smith MBE in the middle!

BSA B25SS Rebuild, Part Something (we’ve lost track already)
Hammers! Great heat! Violence and invective. All of these delights and more have been a familiar sight in The Shed, as FrankW attempts to dismantle an oil in frame, unit construction single

BSA M20 REBUILD
Rick Howell discovers a weary old sidevalve warrior, unused for forty years. Can he get it running again in time to meet a D-Day deadline in Normandy?

JEFF SMITH, MBE
Fifty years ago, Jeff Smith MBE claimed his place in history and the FIM 500cc World Motocross Championship title. Odgie celebrates this anniversary with a potted history of the man who made history. And of a life well lived…

MOTO GILERA GIUBILEO  REBUILD, Part One
Stu Thomson is something of a sucker for a sweet little Italian, and he’s revitalised several already. A 98cc Moto Gilera Giubileo is an entirely new experience, so this time he has to figure out exactly what he’s bought before he can set to with the spanners…

NORTON ATLAS SCRAMBLER
In the mid-1960s, the Atlas Scrambler took America’s desert races by storm. Lawrence Howes rides one and finds out why, and meets a world authority on the subject of AMC’s hybrid bikes…

NORVIN
You take a Norton featherbed frame and insert a Vincent twin engine. Easy. Not. It takes expertise and enterprise to attempt to improve Mr Vincent’s big V-twin. Colin Sparrow explains how one owner set about building the ultimate café racer…

ROYAL ENFIELD BULSADER
In which our intrepid reporter (that would be Odgie, himself) rides across Lancashire to meet a man who likes Enfields, so much so that he built his very own Bulsader. What’s that? Well, you take a 350 BULlet engine, and you put it in a 250 cruSADER frame, and…

SUNBEAM B24 350
No aspect of the British bike industry was left untouched by WW2. We readily recall the military models, built by the boatload to help win the war. But there’s another side to this situation, casualties which disappeared from the lists in 1939, gone for good. AMC launched a remarkable range of innovative motorcycles at exactly the wrong moment, as Rowena Hoseason discovers…

TRIUMPH TR5T TROPHY TRAIL
The Adventurer was Triumph’s 1970’s attempt at a bike to go anywhere, to do anything. A noble goal pursued by all manufacturers. Frank Westworth rides one of Triumph’s more interesting efforts

PLUS! Daisy the Triumph Speed Twin and her heroic assistant, Graham Ham, continue their epic exploration of sheds and the men who inhabit them; PUB considers the sanity of continental touring on a vintage sidevalve; RC readers write, rant and rattle on, and there’s bikes and the like for sale, too

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