Paul Hendrick in Ownership Guides Winter Storage & Spring Recommissioning: Protecting Vintage Metals and Seals Modern ethanol fuel eats vintage petcocks and float bowls alive. Follow this off-season protocol to ensure your classic starts instantly on the first sunny weekend. 3 min read 71 8
Paul Hendrick in Maintenance & Tech Spoke Wheels and Inner Tubes: Roadside Puncture Repairs on the Backroads Cast wheels and tubeless plugs have made riders soft. Here is how to spoon a fresh tube into a vintage wire wheel with two tire irons and hand soap. 3 min read 82 6
Paul Hendrick in Ownership Guides Kickstarting Without Broken Shins: The Lost Ritual of Starting Big Vintage Singles Don't just kick wildly and pray. Understanding top dead center, compression releases, and fuel priming will get even a finicky 500cc single firing on kick one. 3 min read 112 14
Paul Hendrick in Maintenance & Tech Drum Brakes in Modern Traffic: Surviving and Thriving with 1960s Stopping Power Twin-leading-shoe drums have charm and surprising grip when properly arced and adjusted, but modern ABS traffic requires a complete recalibration of your brain. 3 min read 65 5
Paul Hendrick in Ownership Guides The Roadside Survival Kit Every Classic Motorcycle Rider Must Carry Modern roadside recovery won't fix a blown condenser or loose throttle cable fifty miles from nowhere. Here is what is in my weathered leather roll. 3 min read 89 7
Paul Hendrick in Maintenance & Tech The Sacred Art of Carburetor Synchronization: Tuning Multi-Cylinder Classics by Vacuum From bench synch to manometer balancing, here is the methodical procedure to eliminate off-idle stumble and make vintage carbs purr in harmony. 3 min read 76 9
Paul Hendrick in Ownership Guides Living with Lucas Electrics: How I Tamed the "Prince of Darkness" on My Vintage Triumph You don’t need to fear 1960s British motorcycle wiring. Here is how modern grounding, Boyer ignition, and solid-state rectifiers transform reliability. 3 min read 98 12