On Thursday, 17 November 2016 11:20:01 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Simon Mason wrote:
He could tune 4 pot bike engines by ear with a screwdriver held to it
and he rebuilt his Alfasud boxer by hand after wrecking it by redlining
it.

Must be a really crap design if you can't 'redline' it. Surely you should
have learnt by this and gone for a better make?

He was on his way to a fire, overevved it and the pistons hit the valves on the way down.