Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Up and running!

G’day! Well, my long-suffering CMM friends, it has taken me six previous articles to get here but finally my RM is a runner. Not only that, but it also looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor having been pre-delivered by a 16-year-old apprentice mechanic (who would now be 57!).

So why the long delay? Covid-19 hasn’t helped. Four kids to home school, a publishing company to run and

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