I’ll do that later…

I doubt anyone who has assembled a motorcycle of any sort will be surprised to hear it’s not the big bits which take the time, but the smaller details. What I’m talking about here is the ancillary components – oil pump, oil lines and the myriad tiny fasteners which are never there when a pile of bits is forced into a complete or almost complete motorcycle.

There are other issues to attend to at the moment as well, but as I now have two wheels with tyres on and potentially the possibility for the project to stand on its own wheels rather than the four castors on a rolling cart, then it is time to attend to the bits which I’ve put off doing.

Fastener threads and their functions have been a recurring theme in this build, because the number of bits being used don’t all originate from the same year, or even the same manufacturer. Helpfully, Triumph lists fastener lengths in their parts books and a random glance through my copy