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  • From the archive: What happened to this much-travelled AJS?

    From the archive: What happened to this much-travelled AJS?

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    Mark Gooding tells the story of his late father-in-law’s 1952 350cc AJS, OMA 859, now thought to be fitted with a 500cc engine, and wonders if any Old Bike Mart reader can help him trace

  • Vic Eastwood (1941-2019)

    Vic Eastwood (1941-2019)

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    Former scrambling star Vic Eastwood has died, aged 78. A member of BSA’s works motocross team, he was fourth in the 1965 500cc world championship, while he also won the 1968 British Motocross GP, riding

  • From the Archive: Pre-TT Classic May 30-31 2015

    From the Archive: Pre-TT Classic May 30-31 2015

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    An emotional Jamie Coward paid tribute to Ted Woolf and the people who had stood by him after a shattered lower left leg ruled him out for much of 2014. John Watterson shares his story

  • Lean, mean and lime green Volume Two – Racing with Kawasaki The Superbike Years 1978-1983

    Lean, mean and lime green Volume Two – Racing with Kawasaki The Superbike Years 1978-1983

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    The books in the Lean, mean and lime green series are without doubt the most complete story ever told of racing with Kawasaki in the USA and the long-awaited Volume Two covers the important years

  • Rob Edwards Tribute

    Rob Edwards Tribute

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    The trials world has been mourning Rob Edwards, who died in October. The smiling Teesider is forever associated with Montesa but rode for AJS and Cotton too. There is to be a tribute to Rob,

  • Ogri: Remaining Everybody’s favourite since the 1970s

    Ogri: Remaining Everybody’s favourite since the 1970s

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    The immortal Ogri was the proto-rocker that a certain kind of Seventies and Eighties rider wished they were.

  • February 2020 issue on sale!

    February 2020 issue on sale!

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    This February issue of RealClassic is packed full of classic machines, tales from the shed, in-depth interviews and striking photography.

  • Bristol is nearly here!

    Bristol is nearly here!

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    The 2020 Carole Nash Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show celebrates the 40th birthday of the event. To mark the milestone, organisers are turning back the clock and throwing a 1970s/80s-themed birthday bash and, of course, everyone

  • Missing men

    Missing men

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    Dear CR It is nice to see the photograph Nick Nicholls took at the start of the 125cc TT in 1961. And it is nice too, to have mentioned most of the riders, some of

  • The story of a snowy Colmore Cup Trial in 1932…

    The story of a snowy Colmore Cup Trial in 1932…

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    Snow and ice are often the bane of competitive winter motorcycling events. But in February 1932, it wasn’t enough!


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