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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="BigEd" data-source="post: 127795" data-attributes="member: 161"><p><strong>Prioritise</strong>. </p><p>From your posts I infer that you are a busy man with lots of interests and projects.</p><p>Unfortunately, assuming that you, like many readers here, are towards the wrong end of our hoped-for lifespan and what time we have left reduces every day.</p><p>You have developed or restored bikes to what I believe is a high standard so you already know how long these things can take.</p><p>Be honest and ask yourself is your priority to actually ride this Vincent, restore it or use it to provide information to people who will be doing a similar exercise in the future? (The latter is a commendable philanthropic exercise but time-consuming if done to the high standard that I think you would produce.)</p><p></p><p>We all have our own priorities or preferences. <u>Mine</u> is to ride my Rapide while I am still able. Last week on a fine Thursday my wife and I had a wonderful day out with my brother and his wife. We rode 180 miles taking in interesting roads and wonderful scenery in the Derbyshire Peak District. Priceless. </p><p>When I can no longer do that kind of ride (not in the near future I hope ) maybe I'll pass my time by removing modifications I've done and restore my Rapide to original or a good standard. That is not my priority at present, yours and other peoples priorities may be different but we all have a choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigEd, post: 127795, member: 161"] [B]Prioritise[/B]. From your posts I infer that you are a busy man with lots of interests and projects. Unfortunately, assuming that you, like many readers here, are towards the wrong end of our hoped-for lifespan and what time we have left reduces every day. You have developed or restored bikes to what I believe is a high standard so you already know how long these things can take. Be honest and ask yourself is your priority to actually ride this Vincent, restore it or use it to provide information to people who will be doing a similar exercise in the future? (The latter is a commendable philanthropic exercise but time-consuming if done to the high standard that I think you would produce.) We all have our own priorities or preferences. [U]Mine[/U] is to ride my Rapide while I am still able. Last week on a fine Thursday my wife and I had a wonderful day out with my brother and his wife. We rode 180 miles taking in interesting roads and wonderful scenery in the Derbyshire Peak District. Priceless. When I can no longer do that kind of ride (not in the near future I hope ) maybe I'll pass my time by removing modifications I've done and restore my Rapide to original or a good standard. That is not my priority at present, yours and other peoples priorities may be different but we all have a choice. [/QUOTE]
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