Not sure I qualify, yet, but time will tell.
After a thorough, 3 month clear out of my garage/workshop, buying some new (or new to me) workshop tools that I'd long hankered after, I've spent the past month staring at a thoroughly tidy and sorted, but empty void. The garden fence is sorted, the dog training is going well, my sax learning is progressing, and my recumbents have every new part they could wish for. There's nowt left to do. Other than slide, inexorably, towards a bib when I dribble, and general decrepitude, thinking back on what I might have achieved if only I'd known then what I know now.
No longer. After some deliberation (well, about an hour) I've taken delivery of a non-running, Canadian re-imported, Triumph 750. Fortunately with the management's support.
I have form with British motorcycles, my last one carrying me on a daily 95 mile round trip into London every day when working in Victoria St in the late '70s. It was the only way I could afford the commute, but it was very heavy on bike maintenance, so I learned my Triumph Twins.
Having retired, and worked through the initial to-do list, I was bored, I needed a tinkering and fettling project. Hence a return to mucky fingernails (my sax teacher will love that..), long hours searching the internet for parts and advice, and the smell of Jizer (or maybe Muc-off now) in the workshop.
It turns over, has good compression and clearly has done nothing since the engine was re-bulit. But why did they seem to use any fastener they had to hand when they put the engine back together and couldn't find the bolt they'd taken out? If that was their mentality, are there any gremlins inside the engine that I can't see? But there are a number of small parts with it that I'll need, and clearly the original owner had intended to get it running again. But why did he stop? Too big a job, a major fault? Or a simply few years ahead of me on the slippery slope.
But, it has new tyres, the chrome is good, wheels are good, and it's almost all there.
I just hope this isn't going to qualify me as the Div of all time..... I just hope.......