The Classic MotorCycle

Decision-making process

When setting out on this rebuild, I did have some sort of plan in place, and it involved creating a machine which, broadly speaking, resembled a competition Triumph twin, as used in the mid-1960s, and I wanted to do it using the parts I had collected or acquired over a period of years. This was to show it was possible to create a motorcycle on a reduced budget which would work and look okay, too.

A decision not to hide the frustrations along the way was hoped to encourage others doing the same thing, by demonstrating they weren’t alone when they hit problems, and that you can work around them with a variety

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