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He’s at it again! Once more Scoop takes on another oddball bike. Will he ever learn?
Where does the time go? I ask this as I am at a loss to explain how it’s four years since I opened the crate that contained a Yamaha CS3C street scrambler from Canada!
The bike has sat at the back of the workshop covered in protective blankets and hidden by two push bikes, neither of which I shall ever use. Having occasionally sneaked a look at the 200 twin I’ve pondered long and hard what I should do with it in terms of fettling/spannering/repairing etc. One thing that’s a given is that the motor needs to be taken down and carefully overhauled. The previous owner, Peter Howes, has told me he bought the bike pretty much as is and when he got it running it sounded noisy on the bottom-end. It’s a foible shared with every other vertically split Yamaha twin that’s been on long-term or do I just undertake the absolute bare minimum and leave it as is? The former (I know) will be expensive and protracted while the latter is a stupidly easy win. Plan A gets me another semi-sterile resto I’ll probably not want to despoil while Plan B delivers a machine reeking of patina but arguably a little too careworn for my own personal taste: which leads us nicely into Plan C which is a sympathetic refresh of what’s there, whereby I deal with issues on a case-by-case basis.
