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Chapter Eleven. Wobbly Walking Stick. Anyway, to cut a long story short I bought it! I know, I know but it was only a few miles from Pam’s mother and we hadn’t seen her for a while. OK OK OK I’m a sucker for Scotts! So we get back to Scotland and I put it in the garage. Now then! See the water underneath this bike! Some things are better left alone. And when its the last bike built by an experienced Scott man then even more so.
I ain't going to bore you with the details of taking the car down to Cornwall and trailering the bike back. Enough to say that on a rainy day as I heard it scream into life after only three tries, it sounded 'Great!' No matter that water flowed out of the battered and repaired radiator quicker than it was put in. Or that it shook the foundations of the old brick workshop to bits covering the scratched remains of the paintwork with another layer of dust which quickly attached itself to the oily engine covers. Or that a spreading oil slick dripped relentlessly from the bottom of the crankcase. I was sold. Hooked. Again! A sucker for romance and history. Keith Deeley told me that it was the last bike Con Whitlock built before he died and the last bike his widow sold. Restore it! Sacrilege! So when we get back to Scotland I firstly have a look at the oil leak. This means finding out how Scotts were built. So I bought 'Scott Technicalities' from the Owners Club and learnt to my surprise that what I thought was a single crankcase was in fact two crankcases side by side. This meant that the sealant that I had put on the inspection hole in the front of the engine was in fact doing nothing! I learn real slow sometimes! A quick look in Technicalities while on the toilet revealed this so back to the garage for another look. Ahah! the drain hole at the bottom of the crankcase was bunged up so that the oil, instead of draining away, collected in the bottom. The spinning flywheel then picked this up and threw it with gay abandon all over the bike wheels and brakes. Three problems solved with one snag!
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