Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Going bonkers over Bosozoku

Define fashion. Go on, I dare you: bell-bottoms? Lederhosen? The Stones? Paisley pyjamas? Or maybe Elsies, or clip-ons and rear-sets or ape-hangers! I’ve suffered many diverse ‘fashion’ requests over the last 50 years or so, psychedelic paint jobs, ‘King & Queen’ bum perches and, to my eternal shame, I’ve been paid to install the likes of pike nuts, mirrors, mudflaps, and front (and rear) tower carriers on many an LI, TV, GT or SX Lambretta, (times woz ‘ard, we needed the brass, I’m not

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