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BMW
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Running, Riding & Rebuilding RealClassic Motorcycles
ISSUE 151 NOVEMBER 2016 £3.60
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WHAT LIES WITHIN
AJS SILVER STREAK ......................................8
44
RE’S NEW BULLET .......................................60
REALCLASSIC 151; PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 2016
When Associated Motorcycles wanted
to catch the eye of the discerning 1930s
customer, they jazzed up their ohv AJS
singles with dazzling coats of chrome.
Ace Tester Miles rides the result, wearing
shades…
DIVERGENT TWINS .....................................26
Royal Enfield’s new-for-1963 unit
construction single bore little resemblance
to the traditional Bullet which preceded it.
James French found one of these really rare
350s, and then he found a couple more
MARATHON MAN........................................68
RC REGULARS
THE CONTENTS PAGE ....................................3
An AJW? A what? And an AJS? Which is
the misprint?
WE’VE GOT MAIL! ........................................16
Take two beefy V-twins built more than a
decade apart, one in Europe and one in
Japan, and with very different engineering
and kerb appeal. Paul Tebbett rides them
both and uncovers more similarities than
you might imagine…
BLOCKADE BONNIE ....................................34
During a lifetime of motorcycling, Mike
Estall has made many friends from all
around the world. One of those classic
riders is also a long distance runner who
hails from the frozen north, and who owns
a fascinating collection of vintage vehicles
BSA B21 REVIVAL........................................34
Every month, this is your chance to have
a say, have a rant, argue or simply say nice
sweet things. We prefer those…
EVENTS ........................................................76
Worn out by Stafford’s thrills and spilled
coffee, we’re drifting towards Christmas
now. Mince pie?
READERS’FREE ADS ....................................78
Born under a bad sign, amid strikes, sit-ins
and industrial strife, this oil-in-frame 650
twin could’ve been nothing but trouble.
But when Stuart Urquhart gets it ready to
ride, he discovers that it challenges many of
his preconceptions. In a good way
BMW R50.....................................................44
Take a pile of rusty old motorcycle parts,
recognise their value, build a bike from the
bits. Sounds simple … but it’s not. John Lay
took on a serious BSA challenge
HONDA CB350 CAFÉ RIDER ........................90
Some top tackle here, too. And TP has
been fed, we can reveal
PUB TALK ...................................................102
Just another dull old 500 twin, then? Well…
not exactly. Frank Westworth discovers a
flat delight
AJW GREY FOX............................................52
Eddie bought his new project bike largely
unseen and it turned out to be bodged
beyond belief. No problem: he intended to
strip it right back to basics and build a café
racer. But how well would the four-cylinder
Japanese engine have withstood four
decades of neglect?
NORTON ELECTRA PROJECT ......................96
Steam is on this month’s agenda, as
PUB gets onto the footplate of road and
railway engines, and then goes in search
of the Roper steam motorcycle…
TALES FROM THE SHED .............................108
In his continuing mission to search out
the oddball and unusual, Odgie uncovers
another idiosyncratic animal – this time a
sidevalve parallel twin, aka the Grey Fox
Frank W is uncertain what BSA stands for,
but is sure it’s not Brilliant Starts Are …
available
RC COMPASS CHALLENGE.........................114
Surely, mused Peter Holland, it can’t be
that hard to restore an old British bike? So
began a decade-long project to bring a
Norton lightweight back to life. Part two:
your starter for ten
Some truly remarkable navigational skills
and imaginations are on display here. Get
riding; it’ll soon be winter!
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THIS MONTH
we’ve been reading Snow
Flurries (echoes of the Stasi in post-GDR
Germany); The Borrowed (a masterful recent
history of Hong Kong masquerading as super-
sleuth detective stories); Special Relationship
(another new quick thriller from that hard-
working chap Frank Westworth – out this
month as part of his new anthology), and an
endless stream of John Connolly’s Charlie
Parker novels. FW’s up to the twelfth now; RH
has of course read them all already…
MEANWHILE AT THE MOVIES
we were
utterly engrossed by the powerful Korean
thriller, The Chaser; went polar exploring
with Scott in The Great White Silence and felt
the icy blast of the Himalaya in The Epic Of
Everest (two fabulously restored silent films
form the 1920s); and thought Miss Peregrine,
The Girl On The Train and Inferno were all
woefully over-rated and generally a bit
rubbish. Roll on Rogue One…
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t always happens at this time of
year. I begin to scheme. I begin to
plot. I begin to plan next year’s rides.
Because next year – that is every
single next year – I am going to make the
time to ride more, further, maybe for longer
than just a couple of days. I plan to ride
without a plan, just booking an overnight
while eating breakfast wherever I stopped for
the previous night. At one time I would troll
around the countryside using a Little Chef
roadmap (provided free by the chain of the
same name), stopping for a coffee – at least
a coffee! – at every Little Chef I encountered
until I found one with a lodge attached to it.
Sadly, that would be a real problem these
days.
However… it would be perfectly possible
to go on a mainland UK cruise stopping
at convenient lodges and inns, if – pause
for impact – if those inn and lodge chains
supplied real genuine paper maps showing
their locations. I navigate by paper maps
when on the road. I like to open them out
and have a look at all the alternatives before
deciding where to wander. That’s not easy
when staring at a screen on a cell phone. In
the sunshine. Hungry.
That being the case, what happens now is
that I decide where I’m going – sometimes it’s
where I need to go rather than just a favourite
jaunt – and plan my route and my overnights
before I leave home. Which is not entirely
creative, and allows little in the way of from
the saddle improvisation. It also means that
I cart around neatly printed directions and
instructions to myself, usually displayed
in the window of a tank bag, but often
folded up in a pocket. It is remarkable
how online mapping leads the hapless
rider to junctions which either don’t
exist, which don’t allow access, or
are somehow very different to the
suggestion on the map.
A favourite incident occurred
while hunting the elusive OK Diner a
couple of years back. I arrived at the
road where was the
Diner, but wasn’t
due there
I
FROM
THE
FRONT
until the following day, so continued to my
overnight lodge. Which was on the opposite
side of the same dual carriageway. According
to the online map there was a junction just a
few miles further on. And there was. However,
although it allowed me to leave the dual
carriageway it did not have an entry heading
the other way. It took a while.
And yes, of course I know I could fit a
satnav of some kind, but where is the fun in
that? I like maps. I’m not as adventurous as
Graham Ham, but it is sometimes good to get
lost, so long as you have a map to find the
way out. I’m looking forward to getting lost
next year. I’ve the opportunity for a couple of
decent rides in what’s left of 2016, but I know
where they’ll go and what I’ll do there. Next
year, though, is empty so far. Hmmm…
Ride safely
Frank Westworth
Frank@realclassic.net
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