Famous Last Words

“The only thing to do with the AJS, I decided, was to ride the Triumph, which looks appalling, sounds worse, but is so far a complete hoot.”

so, at what point is that, exactly? My own fairly desperate attempts at reviving some moribund old nail rarely achieve anything like completion, although I know lots and lots of folk who can produce a perfectly running shiny motorcycle from what appeared to be a pile of rusty scrap. Even worse, they then claim