The Classic MotorCycle

In the workshop – Making swarf

Younger family members (Rowena and Peter) are restoring a 1938 Triumph Speed Twin from a totally disassembled kit and like any second-hand jigsaw puzzle, bits were missing.

Parallel twins have never been my scene, but I readily admit a pre-Second World War 5T in Amaranth Red

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