INCOMING!
I’d like to award five service stars to Avondale Welding, who corrected my stupidity and dented pride. Being an impatient chump, I tried pushing my Enfield Continental 250 up the ramp backwards onto the bench on my own. It fell off, breaking the steering lock and allowing the clutch lever bracket to bash the tank. Mike Pegler of Avondale bent a special tool from steel bar which could be wiggled in through the filler cap to support the dent while he played a few rhythms with his small hammers on the outside.
The plating is still intact and the blemish is quite acceptable and infinitely preferable to the very costly alternative of cutting open, straightening, welding, replating and repainting. Mike is a real craftsman and has worked wonders for me over the years on frames, tanks, cylinder heads and engine cases.
Oily Boot Bob, member Damn you! Spoiling a perfectly good A65. If I had my way I’d put you in a Black Prince rubber suit and leave you in the middle of the Sahara. Charlatan.
Actually ermm... it’s rather fab. Normally a tricky concept for many, the BSA is a frightfully good job. Not overdone at all. I’m envious. Very…
…special. The very word shivers my timbers. Who hasn’t seen some shocking examples? Inadequate twisted bits from the shed made to fit and chopped about like the remains of a Sunday joint. No relation to the original motorcycle whatsoever and many look downright dangerous. A multitude of two-wheel sins, more often than not. I know they’re not all bad,
