Classic Bike Guide

It’s okay

than I care to remember, and now it’s going to finally get sorted. There’s been a 1968 Yamaha AS1 125cc twin on my bike bench since September 2022 and since that date I’ve done two things to it – nothing and begger all! Why the stasis, you quite reasonably ask? A lack of parts, possibly; something irretrievably broken, perhaps; or how about waiting on a third party to do what they promised? All viable causes for the inertia of the project, but no. I’ll come to my own excuse later in this meandering missive, but I have found, in something

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