Seattle PI: Under The Needle: They get their motors runnin’

By MIKE LEWIS
P-I REPORTER

The problems and their solutions sit stacked within the same bins at Georgetown’s Twinline Motorcycles. Heads. Pistons. Cams. Dogs, cogs, clip-ons and clubmans. The entrails of dead bikes harvested to someday give noise and motion to rebuilt ones.

Ian Halcott, owner of the Georgetown shop, pointed to the disassembled Honda CB160, the skeletal Yamaha RD 400 and the carcasses of bikes as old as or older than he is. These are, he said, months of detail work, endless headaches and, if not managed carefully, the greasy seeds of bankruptcy.

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