Multi-tasking

How are you surviving the lockdown here in the UK? Hopefully quite nicely… however, it has played hob with the traditional way those of us building bikes acquire their bits and pieces.

With this Triumph project at a stage where the easy stuff is done and the time-consuming, fiddly bits are awaiting attention, a good rummage in a few boxes at an autojumble was on the cards. Normally this would have meant Stafford showground for the Classic MotorCycle Show in April, or possibly Newark or some such place where delighted squeals accompany the rescuing of horrendously filthy bits and pieces.

You know the drill – fellow enthusiasts nod in appreciation of the lucky find of valuable classic parts hidden in grime to be teased out like the prospector panning for gold, while normal family members are open-mouthed and aghast... unable to see what