Store cupboard special

What started out as a joint project between my father and I has, truth be told, become his solo enterprise. While I spend my days indoors in my ‘office’ (aka the spare bedroom) at his house (where I’ve been since March, owing to you know what) staring at my computer screen, in between fretting about have we enough material to get through winter and trying to understand and remember the principles of invoicing, among many, many other things, he, pretty much, heads out into the garage, to keep up the Velocette project momentum.

That’s how we’ve got on as far as we have. The other evening, I was chuckling at my colleague Matt Hull’s reference to ‘part 507’ of his own Norton ES2 rebuild in our sister title – it’s nothing like; can’t even be half that yet… – while our own Tim Britton’s Triumph rebuild has gone on since goodness-knows-when, but it does demonstrate how time consuming these projects are. My dad (retired) almost treats his hobby like a job, and though he’s not out in the garage at 7am, he doesn’t hang about too long in the mornings, and while