Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Cone alone!

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Working in my garage I get totally absorbed in what I’m doing and sometimes forget the time until my wife Tracey pops in and says, “What do you fancy for tea?” It’s 5pm and I’m up to my knees in the swarf from machining parts for my new 374cc six-cylinder engine. Where did the day go, I’m thinking to myself. This new project is really stretching my imagination to the full – there are so many parts to make; more on this new project later on.

Back to my Kawasaki H1 500LC I was talking about last month. I only had a couple of jobs left to do – make the four exhausts and the radiator. I like to make expansion

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