The best laid schemes…
The easy way to rebuild a motorcycle for a magazine feature is to start with a complete motorcycle and take it apart… which is what CDB did many, many issues ago, with my Bultaco. Even though the bike has been in my possession since it was brand-new in 1980 and I’ve always handled the majority of the spanner work required over that period, it was still an involved task to rebuild it. Compared to gathering the parts needed to make a motorcycle which didn’t exist in the first place, fettling the Bult was a doddle.
Even so, I thought perhaps by using a Triumph as a base the task would be simple(r) as Sixties unit Triumphs are neither complicated or particularly rare and I happened to have a selection of bits floating around. Of course others brave/daft enough – delete as you feel appropriate
