The Classic MotorCycle

An attack of the vapours

It doesn’t matter what nationality the motorcycle you’re working on is or where in the world you are working on it, there will be corrosion to deal with. It’s a fact of climate life – various metals react in ways that promote an iron oxide on steels and irons and a white powdery oxidisation on aluminium alloys.

Left alone this chemical reaction caused by the proximity of damp and oxygen in the atmosphere will eat through the base metal and the component, be

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