Nibblet wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:54 pm
That sounds distinctly dodgy to me.
Especially when I'd sent them an email prior and subsequently held a conversation over the phone before bringing it down. The old man was implying he would only take it in as his son has so said in that conversation. I said 3 times that I'd happily drive it home and not convenience them further.
red5 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:41 pm
Something dodgy there. tread carefully - I suspect a fiddle/tuck-up.
I think so, I would walk away from that.
'Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out, and so has sodomy'.
'Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
Thomas Sowell
Back starting to feel better so had a quick tinker with the Vel satis. Checked alignment again and turned it over with coil packs disconnected. Connected coil packs and it fired instantly and revs perfectly. On ran briefly as no pulleys or covers on and engine sat on a block of wood. Guess I need to start reassembly tomorrow and pray it runs ok on a test run
Hardly a squeak from fb or gumtree on the mazda. Very odd.
I'll give it a few days and I'll wrap it up and garage it again.
I might just buy something else to mess with. Something that won't turn to dust parked outside.