The Classic MotorCycle

Metal mangling

Many of us, including me, don’t have the skills, engineering knowledge or equipment to make crankshafts, cut pinion teeth or reprofile cams, but there are many restoration tasks we can undertake. And the more we do, the more we can. Of course, the equipment and tools we have to hand limits us, and our workshop is no exception, but, by fair means or foul, we’ve acquired some useful equipment at modest costs.

Our Chinese-made lathe and mill were new purchases at a modest cost two

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