Being adaptable is a must
One of the best qualities an amateur restorer can have is adaptability… when something goes wrong or a minor hiccup occurs the adaptable person can then smile and circumvent the problems. Or at least pretend that’s the way it’s going to happen…
The other day, I was battering one of the other bikes in my personal fleet against the tougher bits of the Highlands in the recent Pre-65 Scottish two-day trial and after the first day was doing a bit of minor fettling. As ever in such circumstances, a few ‘friends’ were on hand to offer ‘advice’ and during one such exchange it came to light one lad always has two projects on the go in his garage at any one time. The theory being if one goes awry he can just move on to the other then the original problem sorts itself out – the example offered went thus…
“…I dropped a nut and couldn’t see it anywhere, so moved on to the other bike, next day the nut was clearly visible, caught in the
