Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

The numbers game…

Ah, numbers, where would we be without ’em? They’re everywhere you look.

How about that long 16-digit one on your bank/debit/credit card that we’re told is so important but now with all the contactless and tapping stuff it’s almost redundant, unlike that cheeky little three-digit one hiding around the back.

This was the ‘magic number’ as one of the employees at Vance & Hines Racing referred to it as she extracted my mortgage money in exchange for

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