Seattle PI: Under The Needle: They get their motors runnin’
By John Davis • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Northwest Cycle News HeadlinesBy MIKE LEWIS
P-I REPORTERThe problems and their solutions sit stacked within the same bins at Georgetown’s Twinline Motorcycles. Heads. Pistons. Cams. Dogs, cogs, clip-ons and clubmans. The entrails of dead bikes harvested to someday give noise and motion to rebuilt ones.
Ian Halcott, owner of the Georgetown shop, pointed to the disassembled Honda CB160, the skeletal Yamaha RD 400 and the carcasses of bikes as old as or older than he is. These are, he said, months of detail work, endless headaches and, if not managed carefully, the greasy seeds of bankruptcy.
John Davis is the owner, editor and publisher of Northwest Cycle News. John also owns and writes for MotoSkagit.com and is the administrator for the Washington 120 State Park Tour. In addition to his own sites, John is a contributing author for MotorcycleLife.com and Motorcyclebloggers.com. He lives in Mount Vernon, WA and rides a candy-red Honda VTX1800 Retro.
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