Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Ferret-ing about!

Ferret and I go back probably 20 years or so when he was first establishing his mobile motorcycle rewiring business and I was getting back into classic bikes.

I’ve learnt a lot from ‘The Messiah of Wire’ and given him some electrical nightmares that are way above my pay grade. We’ve got drunk together several times, consumed the odd kebab whist putting the world to rights, and once almost got thrown out of village pub for knowing more answers to electrical and chemistry questions than the local ‘experts’.

Over those two decades there’s not been a single, self-induced incidence of vacuous voltages or obscure ohms

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