Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

It’s gone Fawlty!

Sometimes old bikes are simply ungracious, churlish and downright egregious.

Having fed the ‘tiny terror’ a new right-hand-side crankshaft oil seal, did it solve the problem of pressurised gearbox? Did it my arse! And to further register its total disgust with me meddling inside with its giblets it also decided that its clutch was now going to slip. When you

1 get a double whammy back in thanks for trying to get an engine to run properly you can understand why Basil Fawlty thrashed his car with that rose bush. “YOU VICIOUS B*STARD! IF YOU DON’T START…”

Having simmered down, post-test ride and in

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