• BSA A65
Buying your first old bike: what’s the worst that can possibly happen? In this case, everything. Learn from this owner’s experiences with his 1964 650 twin…
• Norton Dominator
What if you don’t want a featherbed frame but you do want more gumption than the first 500 twin can deliver? Take an early Model 7 with plunger suspension and replace its motor with a later 600cc alloy engine. Voila! The Super Model 7
• Kawasaki 250 SG
You’ve probably never heard of the Kawasaki equivalent of BSA’s C15, but Odgie found this oddity from the late 1960s
• Matchless G3CS
Most muddy AMC scramblers tend to be 500 singles, but we found a feisty 350 instead and took it down some rough roads
• Moto Guzzi Lodola, Pt3
Our ongoing restoration of a 1950s Moto Guzzi single. This month, Stu Thomson fabricates components to replace those which are missing or just plain mangled
• Royal Enfield 500 twin
Before the Meteor Minor, Royal Enfield fitted a twin cylinder engine into the singles’ chassis. Mike Powell salvaged one of these unusual 500 twins from the scrapheap
• Triumph Bonneville TT Special
Seldom seen in the UK, Triumph built their T120/C and TT Specials for export to America. One RC reader has been painstakingly reconstructing his own to the correct specification
• Vincent V-twin
Fritz Egli built a fabulous frame to make the most of the big Vin V-twin. The result was so good that you can still build replica Egli Vins today. Nolan Woodbury investigates the background, the nuts and bolts, and the joy of ownership
PLUS! fitting an electronic ignition to a Triumph twin; readers discuss the merits of the Moto Shifty, lubricating AMC swinging arms; the motorcycling life of Lawrence looks at his Broughs of the late 1920s; Graham Ham talks about Happy Days and prepping a classic for the stage, and there’s yet more from Minton and Bickerstaff
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