February 2000
A month away and now I can get back into it! The engine is coming along .... but not without some headaches. The bottom end needs rebuilding which isn't unexpected and it is now off at my friendly engineer. The crankcases however are found to be badly damaged (see photo below). It looks likely that the chain came unstuck at some stage and tore things apart. Lucky I have that spare engine from the swap meet!

Feeling so good about having the correct 55mph speedo I decided to renovate it myself. Wrong. Opening it up I found a mass of rust, crumbled springs, spiders' eggs and other rubbish. This one IS a job for a professional!