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Yeah an old motorbike is a great way to enjoy ancient transport- can I guess from your username it’s a Beemer? I’m currently half looking for an old R100Rt or similar to use and improve
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You're the first person to guess in 10+ years. Maybe people have figured it out on the motorbike thread but yes, that is the reason for my username.
They are great but it took me a long time to tune it for my riding style and I always have something that needs doing. At the moment it's the charging system. I've done pretty much every other job on it once.
People who say you can fix them with a couple of spanners need to take a look at my R80 specific toolbox!
Airhead
Your experience seems pretty similar to mine. I ran bangers for many years, started with an Austin A40. That era was a pleasure to work on aside from the rust.
Seems like a lot of the discussion here is circulating around older cars but not one's old enough to be classic just yet. I ran a G Wagon 460 and 2 R4's repairing them in the street for about 20 years they still wouldn't be classic for a few years.
I think the point that a lot of people would struggle to do the school run in a morris minor is fair enough. I did when I went to school, one day one of the kids in the back lent on the door handle, door opened and they fell out. Fortunately no one was hurt!
I do still run a 43 year old motorbike.