News Flash: Dateline Calgary AB
In all the years I have owned this motorbike, it has never run. Well, she is headed to a new home this week, and just for fun, after a brief check over in which I found the plugs to be of two different heat (both incorrect) ranges and one short reach (correct) the other long (incorrect), with a donor battery hooked up, a little filing of 42 year old ignition points, two new NGK plugs and a bit of pre mix gas squirted into the carbs... presto!
After a few brief kicks with the left side K/S, the ring a ding two stroke burbled into life.
This is why the Japanese changed motorcycling history. Back in the day, they had reliable electrics, engines, brakes and controls, something the previously dominant Brits seemed to have missed somehow. Even today, after mere minutes of fiddling, she is alive.
Course, in about 30 seconds running on the pre mix, the garage was full of smoke, but... ya gotta love em!
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