Classic Bike Guide

Last-minute workshopping

CBG Workshop

I THOUGHT THAT THE DAMP MARKS ON MY tank were from fuel leaking from the filler camp under heavy breaking. I was wrong. It was brake fluid.

You may, or may not, recall that I had to clean out and repair the right-hand switchgear on my Bonneville and that the Vaseline inside had dried

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