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Progress has been pretty slow since last issue but there has been some and it’s all been on the lines of ‘now where does that bit fit on again?’. It is at such times the sketch, note or photograph proves invaluable and I don’t care how good your memory is, things will be forgotten. Luckily at the strip down stage regular photographer Gary Chapman was on hand to take lots of photos and film the whole procedure.

For the times when Gary wasn’t there my other half was on hand and is used to my ridiculous requests to photograph things and the incredulous exclamation ‘you want me to take a picture of you doing what?’ is heard less frequently these days.

It soon became apparent that several dry builds are going to be needed to make sure term ‘465itus’ which is a condition caused by snapping the throttle shut in fourth gear when it all becomes too exciting and the bike spits the rider off. It is always the drive side which

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