Straight and narrow
Aged 18, I was shown by my father, Oskar, the resulting mayhem caused in an engine rebuilt with one or more bent conrods. Albeit it was a car engine, the graphic example has lived with me through over 50 years of motorcycling.
The car, a Porsche 356 under repair in the Cambridge workshop my father ran, presented with visible metal flakes to the mouth of its oil filter during a routine service. Further examination revealed much reduced compression to one of its
