why not build my own design?”
Although Dave has restored bikes
over the years, he fully admits that
he can’t weld or do electrics, plus,
being self-employed, his biggest
problem is that he has very little
spare time. He adds, “It would
take me years to do myself and I’m
not that patient!”
Not only is Dave not patient, he
has—as he says himself—too many
ideas. “I think I could build half
a dozen bikes with all the partsthose Jones’ Enfields, the days of
his own Bullet being a café racer
were suddenly numbered.
Although Dave says that, at
first, he’d intended his Enfield
to look like the bike that Craig
had built, things soon progressed
apace. “That was my original plan,
just to build that beautiful bobber.
Then my mind went into overdrive
and I found myself building
different versions of it with all the
bits I’ve collected. So I decided,
I have. I would need to build a
couple of seat units for two of the
versions and I’ve recently thought
up another which might be fairly
easy to do... I do wish I could
sometimes stop thinking so I could
sleep properly!” But, to backtrack
a little, when Dave bought one
of Craig’s hardtail kits (which he
says are “excellent quality”) and
took it along to Simon ‘Bod’ Boden
at Bod’s Custom Cycles, he was
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