When I started the process of restoring my first ever motorcycle, naively I thought I’d be nipping down to Halfords for a bottle of T-Cut and a can of silicone spray. I’d seen Dad do it on numerous occasions and I thought my TY80 wouldn’t need anything more than a wipe down and a good clean. I was wrong…
Being a simple machine, I thought the strip-down would only take an hour or so. I set about taking the tank off, seat off, handle bars off and removing the wheels. I thought I’d just quickly take the forks and engine out and
