AFTER SEVERAL CENTURIES OF MESSING about with increasingly elderly and increasingly cranky old motorcycles, anyone might suspect that I would know how to do stuff. Experience, so they tell us, is the greatest teacher of them all. This isn’t my own experience, plainly, but it is nicely self-motivational and modern. And can anyone learn from the experience of others? Really?
I recently acquired a Triumph, an inevitable Bonneville. One of the profoundly unfashionable examples from 1972, when previously too-tall frames were shrinking, and the previously too-tall fork legs were staying the same. This does at least
