Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Back from the dead...

Like all good ideas this one started in the pub. Like all bad ideas it was after one too many cold beers.

I’d been riding for only a couple of years and between the two of us (me Joe and dad Andy) we’d done some minor restorations and taken a couple of damaged bikes and made some relatively tidy track tools from them so, of course, at 11pm on a Friday night we were well prepared and completely qualified for our first full custom build…

Andy had raced successfully in the 1990s and spannered on his own championship-winning bikes as well as having an extensive back catalogue of iconic bike ownership in the 70s and 80s including RDs, TZ250s and Kawasaki Triples (he still bares the scars

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