Status of my Velocette workshop -
Andy from San Francisco was up yesterday. He drove up to drop off his 1937? Velocette KSS for me to resume work on it, from where I had left off. Andy's bike was one of the many I had to send back unfinished, when my depression hit, and I became unable to do the work, and had shut the shop down. I told him if, and when I recover, and felt up to working again, that I would let him know. Andy waited two years for me to be able to get back on his bike, to bring it back to life for him.
I am very much pacing myself now, and allowing myself lots of time for my hobbies, like musical instruments, photography, cooking, arm chair travel via the internet, art, drawing, and much more - so much so that I believe working on the motorcycles will be my hobby, rather then the others.
When I started drinking coffee again - five cups a day, the following day my depression was completely gone. The power of coffee, and caffeine - and the kindness and understanding of my customers who took their bikes away, allowing me to recover. The depression I believe was a combination of overwhelming amount of bikes, and work in the shed, the shop accident with my bench press falling on me, burn-out - I've had the shop and doing this for 39 years - since 1987 , and I had stopped drinking coffee because of heart issues - I was drinking 25 cups a day -
I am looking forward to helping Dave Smith getting his MAC project sorted, and other projects I had to stop work on - but not all at once !
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