Chris my handsome, it's far more satisfying, as the creative thing is so much better than just putting ones hand in the pocket and buying it. One of my evening routines is to go to the club shop and price up all the things I'd made that day, runs into £ hundreds some times. We should all be able to buy what is required for our bikes as they have earned more than we have just by sitting there. What tight bastards we are, keeping a bike all these years on a shoestring the other option is paying road fund licences, higher insurance, higher fuel consumption, Higher servicing cost as we can't do them ourselves, loss due to depreciation, last but not least I'm not riding the thing I like most.
bananaman.