With all the hard work done, the goal was to put all these bits back onto the rebuilt bottom end over a weekend. But the engine’s dark history still harboured a few last-minute surprises…

Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.

Recommissioning our Dunstall Honda CB750 is cracking on at a pace – or at least it is now we’ve finally wrestled the carburettors free from the inline-four engine

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