The Classic MotorCycle

The yokes are on

The tales of what went on to produce various ISDT machines, which is where the inspiration for this project came from in the first place, were scary, and all they had to do was pick new bits off the shelf. Mixing and matching components from this year and that, this bike and the other however, isn’t easy. Problems start when fitting bits of one bike to one they weren’t intended for, but in the case of the front forks I wanted to use on this project, it didn’t seem

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