Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Holiday FUN-D!

Like many of us, when we get to certain special times in our lives, we like to treat ourselves, yes? Hitting 40 is a classic, 50, 60 and 70 too… Often we have what’s fashionably called a ‘bucket list’. It could be throwing yourself out of a perfectly good aeroplane, or travelling to a faraway country.

For many of us men (yes, I know we have a proud female readership, but bear with me on this) we confuse a ‘bucket list’ with ‘mid-life crisis’. Some may seek out the delights of the younger, fairer sex, while the shrewder among us will try and keep the better half happy, so we can have more time in the shed/garage…

Tim Partington was shrewd. Note the use of the past tense, there. Then things changed but – well, you can see the result here. Let’s start at the beginning. “I’ve always been two-stroke daft, me,” explains Tim. “I’m 50 now,

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