I ended up with two sets of front forks.

Brother Jeff turned up one day with a spare set he had lying around. So I spruced up those ones, and swapped out the fork sets at leisure.

It was about half way through that I realised a motorcycle workshop stand would have been a good investment. Teetering on a rickety plastic milk crate is just depressing – you’re constantly diving to catch 100kg of motorcycle that’s intent on falling to the ground for no good reason.

And when you do catch it, you wish you hadn’t – there’s nowhere stable to put it. So you juggle and jiggle and fight the thing back onto the rickety milk crate – which is of course 50mm too high, so you have to lift the teetering bike as well, while it actively continues its suicidal plummet.

I opted for a brushed alloy finish, to match the brushed metal fuel tank.