Project BMW

THERE IS AN ADDED ENERGY IN A RESTORATION that comes once you are working with clean, painted or new parts. It makes the shed slightly less cold in the evening, and keeps you more efficient and working for a little longer. The only factor that brings it down is the constant need for One More Part... and the never-ending asking of: “Do I need a new bit or will the old one do?”

This month I decided that the ‘Pig’ – my R100RT, my faithful, my rock – would be squeezed inside the shed instead of living under a tarpaulin in the garden. It starts easier, and this way I may get round to exploring the excess noise in the right-hand pot.

But this gave me a space issue, so my solution was to put all the parts I had