Distributing the load
Anyone who has ever thought about assembling a pile of loosely related motorcycle bits into an actual motorcycle, will appreciate certain things are needed for such an enterprise. After more than 40 years of mucking around with motorcycles, I should perhaps know better.
Even if unlimited funds were available I’d probably not ship the whole lot off for someone else to do – after all where’s the fun in that?
Nor do I have unlimited time as a living has to be earned. Then of course there’s the unlimited bits thing.
How many readers remember the breakers’ adverts in the weekly press in the 1970s, with lists of parts from all conceivable British motorcycles? Usually in the back of the classifieds, these block adverts listed, at what now seems to be ridiculously cheap prices, ‘frames selection – Triumph, BSA, Norton, from £3’ and so on.
