I had plenty of time to make the decision, so the first thing I did was create a spreadsheet with all of the elements that go to make up a motorcycle. …and determined whether I would keep, repair, or buy a replacement part. In the end, I rejected the Complete Nutter option for a number of reasons. Primarily that I have done similar before, and the expenditure would never repay itself. I’m not interested in a concourse restoration, where people will be picking it over with beady eyes and accusing me us using the wrong paint on the engine casings. In Early 2017, when I finished populating the spreadsheet, the cost of “Original as possible” came in at just a couple of hundred pounds more than “good” examples of LCs were selling for. As the bike had started it’s life as a 250.. and I have a decent top end for a 250 sitting on the shelf, not requiring rebore and new pistons, a 250 she will be again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In March 2015, I was just 5 years away from retirement.Having overcome the major hurdle to a rebuild, the frame…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Then I evaluated each part I had in the big pile… <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Parts](\"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/parts_pile-1024x768.jpg\")
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This, if done for each of the options outlined above would give me a clue as to how much investment would be needed\u2026 and whether it would be worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In short, I didn’t want another nutter two stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_20210515_0001-1184x1776-e1621099903507.jpg\")
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But something close to concourse was attractive. Lets call it “As original as possible”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concourse, which required purchasing new many more parts, was expected to be almost double the price of a “Good” example, but approximately right for the price of pristine, or councourse examples on sale.
The key argument against pursuing the concourse route though was that the frame and engine numbers had never matched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n