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When I see the tell-tale green of Athena base gaskets peeking out of the bottom of barrels, I expect trouble in store for somebody, too. They had a very bad rep for creeping out under load. Might be Athena have fixed that, by now.

Hah, you won't find the missing third member of the ex-TG team on a bike.

As soon as a retailer says that to me, I immediately think of them as lying abstards.

I always suspected the hand of Moscow played at least a peripheral part in the cancellation of the TSR-2. Who kows, maybe even the Arrow, too. Without a doubt the useful idiots and agents in place played a part in bringing down large sections of manufacturing industry in the cold war.

Remember to take a video of that. Friend of mine did it that way and ended up with "an amusingly-shaped potato".

Cold or hot I ease mine past compression and up to the next compression, then turn the ignition on and whack the boot down firmly. It's near enough a first-kick starter.

Relatedly, one bike (or the engine) I always wanted was the Honda CBX750 with its hydraulic tappets. https://www.classicbikeguide.com/honda-cbx-750/

Also make it slightly easier to pop up on the centre stand.

He makes it sound like it was chiselled from a block of raw steel. "No calculators", my arse. There were desktop calculators for the repetitive mundane stuff, and thousands of guys doing calcs by hand, too.

Dyson unveil their new jet engine design...

Depends on make and how stored. I ran an ancient Continental Blitz tyre that arrived with a wheel I'd bought. It was nearly new, so after careful examination I used it. No worries for about 8000 miles then it turned evil, so I binned it.

Probably out of a scrapped MkII, going by the age of the bike bits. Late 60s / early 70s, those googly eyes were around.

And, it's amazing how many beefier-looking forks use stupidly small bearings down at the business end.