(07-12-16, 08:37 PM)taylor link Wrote: my mate Malcom white got banned so he took the bike apart, a rd 350 lc, problem he took it apart down stairs and rebuilt it upstairs, the ban finished after a year and he tried to get it down the circular staircase, it had none of it striped it down again. DICK.A similar event happened to my mate George in the mid 60's.His bedroom was on the top floor of a large Victorian end of terraced house. Having discovered the term"customising" in a US bike mag, he set about "doing up" a BSA 250 SS80 in his bedroom.The bike was taken apart in the garage we rented, and the parts slowly migrated to his bedroom which was far warmer than the garage.He almost killed his dad,who suffered from cronic asthma, with the cellulose fumes whilst spraying the tank, and hand painting the frame with brushing cellulose.When complete it was parked at the end of his bed,dark green tank,chromed oil tank and toolbox cover.It looked the bizz.It just needed oil and petrol and a battery, jobs to be done in our garage at the bottom of the hill from his house, so all downhill from now.All ok getting it down the short flight of stairs to the first landing where it straight away dawned on us that with the best will in the world it would never get lined up for the next flight of stairs.This was eventually achieved but only after a return to the bedroom to remove the front wheel,forks and mudguard.Happy days though.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.