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.

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John Westlake discovers that his ‘unmolested’ 1986 Suzuki DR250 is actually nothing of the sort

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I originally created my Special 30 years ago, using full-size paper patterns. It loosely resembled an MG J2, being flat-sided with a slab tank. It was constructed from 3/4in plywood with an aluminium