Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Project Yamaha YZF-R1 part 3  Clean cuisine

I’ll never be an authority on classic bikes. I’ll always be an enthusiast and dabbler with basic mechanical and restoration skills, fortunately blessed with talented friends and contacts to help out when I get in trouble.

I think my best skill has to be choosing bikes, even it is from a few words and images. It makes it easier as I like standard stuff so I tend avoid anything modified, which may be expensive to bring back to original. I bought my latest R1 based on a few pictures and trusting the seller when he said it was straight and a sound runner. He also gave me

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