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Two wheels on my wagon!

Hello all, Malc Shaw here. You may remember me from last month. I’ve been asked to continue with the TR750 build here in the pages of CMM, so I hope you like it.

Last time I’d roughly assembled a rolling chassis. It wasn’t rocket science to see that quite a few of the critical components did not line up. Hardly surprising given the various parts came from different bikes; even if the Suzuki vein runs through most of them, it’s still all a bit like Frankenstein’s monster.

I’m assuming (which is the mother of all disasters) that the new CMR TR frame is straight and that the wheels would run along the centre-line. Saying that, I once made some parts for Suzuki GT/T500s and was initially convinced that I had a bent frame. After

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