As the world struggles back to normality and businesses play catch up with work put on hold during the pandemic our IT465 is still waiting in the queue to be worked on. We’ve not been idle with it, you understand, just things such as welding are best done by people who understand the process, have the proper equipment and the knowledge to use it. In the world of attaching two bits of metal together my background in joinery is of limited help unless a jig needs to be made. The reason for the IT being at the welder’s place is to cure a fault on the side stand bracket which has meant the new side stand points out at a jaunty angle rather than nestling up against the lower run of the swinging arm. At some time in the distant past, this IT has suffered a bout of 465itus or at least the then owner had. I doubt this condition will be listed in medical journals though the effects of an attack of it may well be.
I was introduced to the term by Rod Spry when beginning to describe the frame damage to him shortly after acquired this bike some years ago. Rod stopped me right after I said: “Our IT465 has…” by jumping in with “...damage to the nearsidethree gears and things are okay, they do the same in fourth and it gets interesting really quickly, in panic they shut the throttle and the 465 spits them off.”
