Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Ferry good!

It was time in the build of my lockdown specia, for the headlight to be fitted, and I knew I had the complete unit I had taken off my Kawasaki Z900 way back in 1981 when we started racing the bike.

Ah the memories! It had been carefully wrapped and placed in a bright orange Townsend Thoresen car ferries carrier bag, which our older readers may remember were the main operators out of Dover. Over the ensuring years the bag had been moved around the workshop, the orange glow fading over the years, but now when needed, despite a mammoth

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