mark.drechsler

Last time I proudly stated that… The end result is a motor that is damned near ready to be installed… Me, in my previous post. All I needed to do was to adjust valve clearances – how hard could that be? Right? Well, it turns out that it isn’t all that hard, just really fiddly, … Read more

“The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it, the work turned out regular and well-finished … Read more

A short post this one, but highlighting my point in a recent post about this project being a lot like war – long periods of boredom, in my case typically waiting for parts to arrive. The little sucker pictured is a thin rubber gasket that sits between the oil pump and the crankcase. It costs … Read more

So last time I was lurching from stall to stall in the rebuild process, but I neglected to mention one additional thing which had happened during this time – I found a potential track bike, once again in Victoria (the same place I sourced the engine from for the rebuild). Having another FZR600 as a … Read more

There is an old adage that war is long periods of boredom, punctuated by moments of sheer terror, and in that sense, this rebuild has become a war. In my last post, several weeks ago, I mentioned that I was filling time while waiting for the one final part I needed to arrive so I … Read more