Classic Dirt Bike

The settling in process

“…the chain has to line up and this is the deciding factor as to where the wheel sits in the swinging arm and the gaps either side are made up with distance pieces…”
Tim Britton

Hopefully many of you will recall the Can-Am project we did in these pages a few years back. I made no secret of it at the time that it impressed me in several ways, not in the least as to how it performed once it was up and running. To be honest a Can-Am wasn’t the first choice of motorcycle that sprung

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