Pretty quiet session this week in the miserable weather, but lots of things going on. Armstrong 500 Heinz has been touching up paint on the frame to military standard of the day "slap some paint on it" - not to airbrush quality. More paint required. Honda NS125 Ioan busy with wet and dry on the main faring. Kawasaki Z250 Andy-Rattle-Can has been trying to get a nice sheen on a side panel. Yamaha 535 Virago Steve's been shining up the engine block all day. Yamaha TX500 Armed with a full set of cylinder head nuts, Dave W & Phil R got the head on the engine. Later they were seen with various other, scratching their heads - the replacement cam chain doesn't seem to be any longer than the old one.  Honda FX 650 Vigor Mal is still fiddling with the front mudguard bracket - this is about the last thing to do to finish the project.

 Sorry it's been a while folks. Just a quick update today. Here's the latest based on updates from Phil H. Honda FX 650 Vigor Lovely day at our workshop today progressing with our projects 😁 Fixing a broken bolt hole on Mal’s Vigor with epoxy metal so next session we can drill and tap a new thread in there.   Yamaha 535 Virago And great news our Steve had expressed his interest in completing the Yamaha XV535 project so look out for the next few sessions as he gets stuck in to it 😁. Spotted him taking a wire brush to the engine cases today. Latest Survey We got lots of survey responses today but we'd still love more. Please help us set the direction of the workshop by filling in our 5-minute survey - it really means a lot to us! Click here  for the survey

  Yamaha Virago 535 - Our new project. First pictures of our new project (Supplied by its owner) Only 8546 miles if the speedo can be believed. First pictures of our new project (Supplied by its owner) Extreme corrosion in some places - but we can deal with it! Jo and Graham collected our latest project from the village of Garnant roughly 22 miles east of Carmarthen on the southern edge of the Black Mountains.  The lady that kindly donated it to us had last used it during Covid and it had stood idle outside the house ever since then. The log book indicated that when she bought it, it had had 7 previous keepers.  The speedo indicated that it had covered just over eight and half thousand miles. The ravages of the Welsh weather had done their damndest to ruin what was an attractive motorcycle and lots of work would be needed to bring it back to anywhere near its former glory.   In the workshop a battery was connected up and attempts were made to start the bike.  A...