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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Complete Restoration of a Black Shadow
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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 127700" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>For what it's worth, when I looked into this issue shortly after I bought the bike 29 years ago, five people who presumably should have known gave me numbers ranging from 145 hours to 1000 hours for them to restore a Vincent twin. Based on my discussions, my notes show that my "estimate" (more like a guess) at the time was it would take me a minimum of 500 hours plus $6500 (~$12,000 in 2020 dollars) to restore it.</p><p></p><p>It's not like it matters whether or not 500 hours turns out to be anything close to correct because I'll be going forward with this. The estimate was to help me decide how to allocate my time back when I was working full time, when scraping together 500 hours would have taken a few years of "full time, spare time" work. However, I'm retired now so it represents only a year of 10 hours/week in the garage. I certainly waste that much time now working on BSAs...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 127700, member: 2806"] For what it's worth, when I looked into this issue shortly after I bought the bike 29 years ago, five people who presumably should have known gave me numbers ranging from 145 hours to 1000 hours for them to restore a Vincent twin. Based on my discussions, my notes show that my "estimate" (more like a guess) at the time was it would take me a minimum of 500 hours plus $6500 (~$12,000 in 2020 dollars) to restore it. It's not like it matters whether or not 500 hours turns out to be anything close to correct because I'll be going forward with this. The estimate was to help me decide how to allocate my time back when I was working full time, when scraping together 500 hours would have taken a few years of "full time, spare time" work. However, I'm retired now so it represents only a year of 10 hours/week in the garage. I certainly waste that much time now working on BSAs... [/QUOTE]
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