Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

Motor mayhem!

When faced with an apparently insurmountable engineering problem it’s not at all uncommon to take ever more desperate measures to overcome the issue.

I’m fortunate to have Sean Allen living nearby; he’s the youngster who built the amazing LC/YPVS hybrid featured in some years ago. Sean loves his tools and offered to give the rotor a very serious talking to with his mega-torquey rattle gun, a device so far unbeaten. The rotor simply laughed at the tool, ate a handful of high tensile steel draw bolts and sat impassively on the workbench totally unmoved

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