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Sometimes you have to adapt and overcome. Sometimes = working on Italian bikes.🫤

Ah the good old bodger's belt change. "No need to time the cams. Just mark it up and swap the belts." 🙄 No doubt done by following a YouTube expert. Expensive game that.

There really is no such thing as "I'll just ..." on a Ducati. Everything's a full mission. 🫤

Just back from taking the stock 1250 for a fuelling, power and torque baseline on the dyno. Decent figures for a stock bike IMHO at 102 and 79. 👍

10 seconds of music courtesy of the rusty ET.

Off the road in June 1989,back on it again 36 years later. Just had its first 'proper' run. 👍

After action report. 😄 Goes well, really well, with couple of bits to sort/adjust. Really miss a fairing first thing in the morning, and that Cowley is loud which makes it a bit much on the bypass first thing in the morning. 👍

When/why did mechanics stop wearing boiler suits and start being called technicians?

All go today, Ducati going back together, Rocket 3 in as it's blowing oil and the ratchet kits arrived from Snap-On.

Ducati 848 Streetfighter ready for collection in time for the owner to get out over the Bank Holiday.👍

What's the name/number of the Givi luggage system that fits the racks on a 1250 Bandit? The racks are on but I have no top or side boxes.

Instead of leaving it hanging around waiting for me to remap it and/or to donate its innards for an injection conversion, I put the 1250 on the road. I had to go to the post office to apply for a V5 anyway so taxed it while I was there, and it already has an MOT.👍

Bank holiday? not here unfortunately as it's busy week ahead. Rocket 3 engine, calliper to hellicoil, mulcher needing a belt etc etc. I also got to try out the ABS on the 1250 at 06:30 on a roundabout this morning.🫤

Tidy little XR in for a carb clean and set up.

Customer brought in a calliper with a broken tap stuck in it. Turns out the tap broken when it hit the broken piece of easy-out. 🫤 Anyway, spark erosion to remove the tap, drill to get the easy-out, then a time-sert and he's good to go.

The clutch side crank bearings for GS1000, GSX1100 ET/X/S, GSX1150 EF Suzuki part number 0926230033 now available. Originals were Koyo (on the right) and no longer available, these are FAG with ring groove and roll pin to original spec.

Three different bikes, from three different decades, three different options for getting around with a grin on your face. 👍

More machinery repairs today.

Some used +020 pistons for the BSA Rocket 3. Into the parts wash and a turn through the vapour blaster. Once the rebore is done they can have some new rings.

#IOMTT Someone knows them.