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Welcome to the home page of the RJM Classic Motorcycles website.

What RJM Classic Motorcycles does.

As examples of what RJM Classic Motorcycles does, here are some pairs of "before and after" photos of bikes that have been through the restoration process:

*Before . . .*		*. . . After*
	A Triumph 6T twin.

Our A65 as purchased in 2004: note the appalling quality of the then state-of-the-art Sony digital camera

Our current BSA A65 twin.

Three years later with a taller son and better digital camera

It was a long time ago but this one still gives me nightmares. You touched it, it fell apart. You touched it, it fell apart. You touched it . . .

A post-war Royal Enfield twin.

In the end we made more than a little use of Madras tin-ware for the rebuild of this 1954 Royal Enfield Super Meteor

My original A65 before I got at it . . .

My original BSA A65 twin.

. . . and after I got at it, moved house twice, got married once, and then finished it

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For more examples of restoration projects in "after" condition, please visit the Gallery

Running classics on unleaded fuel: I thought everyone was up to speed on this subject and so I did not carry the notes forward from the old version of this web site, so here it is for anybody who is still in doubt. Running classics on unleaded fuel

Follow this link to the safety bulletin: Urgent safety briefing for all owners of classic motorcycles with fibreglass fuel tanks or steel tanks containing sealant.

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About the website

The priority for 2007/08 has been to finally find the time and expertise to bring our web site into the current century and I am indebted to my good friend Will Curry as my archivist and now webmaster for his efforts.

The new site should come come as a pleasant surprise to past visitors who would have found what the police might have described as an apparently abandoned vehicle, over the last ten years or so.

Whilst the new site is to some extent a work in progress, the aim is to introduce new material and items of current interest in order to make it worth while for surfers to pop back from time to time, to see what's new. I would also welcome constructive suggestions via email to roadrocket@hotmail.co.uk

My favourite feature with this new site is that all photographs in future will be click to enlarge, not just the gallery, so you can get a good look at and download anything of interest.

I am pleased now to report on the results of our 2006/07 priority, which was to finally find the time and finance to put a big twin back on the road for my personal use and, more importantly get some serious use out of it. Whilst the primary objective was fun, the more serious side was to re-acquaint myself with the process of living with a newly restored machine for the first few thousand miles, first hand, in order to be able to better serve and advise clients with their machines. Please go to the Life with an A65 page for all the details and photographs so far.

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Apart from this page, the website contains a brief History of RJM Classic Motorcycles, a Gallery of RJM restorations past, a page describing the RJM Pay-As-You-Go Restoration process, an account of Life with an A65, a Buyer's Guide section to help you in choosing a project should you need it, a description of the Service dept. and finally the Contact and Links pages. All of these links also appear at the top of each page under the banner.

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