Special or restore?

Once a upon a time the term ‘classic bike’ was the label saved for bikes that summed up a bygone age of motorcycling; nowadays that phrase covers a far broader spectrum of motorcycles.

Restoring, rebuilding and renovating an old motorcycle is a personal journey and often the model that we select will have a nostalgic pang attached to its selection. Maybe it was a bike you always hankered after; perhaps the cool bloke down the road owned one and you aspired to that machine on your walks to school. Quite often it’s a bike we owned in the past before relationships, offspring and home furnishings got first dibs on your weekly pay packet. Not all refurbished motorcycles are restored to an original spec, which can