Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Reasons to be cheerful: part three…

…or maybe part four (with respect to Ian Dury). Yes, I think I’ve got it weighed up now, all this bike thing, y’know, adding stuff on, making stuff nice, spending 27 hours removing sun-baked cow dung off a set of 50-year-old foot-rest (not foot-peg) brackets with a second-hand toothbrush and a margarine tub of Old Peculiar mixed with Grecian 2000.

It came to me in a flash while I was removing sun-baked…no, no, I was looking at

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