Assembling the pile of unit or ‘C’ range Triumph bits I’ve accumulated since 1981 into a working motorcycle has, and always was something which happened when there was time spare. This isn’t an ideal way to do a build and I freely admit this, but it is real life and lots of people work under similar constraints.
For the past few months, there’s been more focus on the 350cc Velocette I’ve been loaned to do the pre-65 Scottish Two-Day Trial. It isn’t a great idea to go into such an event with an unknown bike, or more correctly an unfamiliar one. While Pre-65 trials these days don’t have the vast mileage events in the actual Pre-1965 era covered, it
