Rebuilding a motorcycle is easy. You buy bits and fit them together, once all the bits are in one bit, fill it with oil and petrol then go ride it, ‘simples’ as the annoying/cute – depending on your viewpoint – furry critter on the telly would say. The task is made even easier by long production runs of basic models in the British industry which mean a high degree of interchangeability in the parts department and the habit of the Japanese industry to ascribe a part number to every conceivable bit and provide schematics of where they should go… In the case of the latter I know what I would like to do with these schematic drawings as it is clear their producer has never had to use them to identify parts during a rebuild.
First job was to go over the bike to remind myself what had been done as thanks to Covid causing mayhem at the engineering place where it was in for welding it’s been
