A lesson learned
Appearances can be deceptive. When I bought my SWM trials bike last year, it came with a sheaf of paperwork, bills for new bits and, best of all, copies of the parts book and a workshop manual – all very reassuring.
Although this was a stalled restoration project, some work had been done and the engine looked to have been rebuilt; as a quick check, I had pulled the head and barrel off to find it very clean and nice with nothing untoward obvious. Indeed,
