Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Sack Truck

Fancy a laugh? Of course you do. I have a feeling that a bit of a chuckle on your part will probably equate to a heap of pain, frustration and befuddlement in roughly equal (and large) proportions, on mine. So basically, you get to laugh at my misfortune, hilarious! I’m not laughing.

The cause of all this mirth (for you) is my latest project bike. Now before you start I realise it isn’t a Yamaha or a Suzuki or one of those other two, but bear with me and I’ll try to join up the dots. It’s a Triumph. There, I’ve said it, and the reason I’m doing it runs back to 2016 when (foolishly) I mentioned in passing that I might recreate my pal Graham’s ‘Spotted Bike’. Time passed, nowt happened, but

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