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Yes, now I recall their feeble attempts at persuasion. Not a hope,
indeed.
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Is this some strange use of manly I've not encountered before?

It still will not start!

I have now. My right ankle hurts and on every third kick there is a
strange squeak. It is still turning over on the electric start but not
catching.

So how do ZXRs handle in the snow?

 

Try draining the petrol out of the carb(s?). Works for my lawnmower and
that's a Honda...

They lie down in it. Don't...

 

Howso? It has been shown to work. Not very often, or reliably, and it's
likely the engine would have started anyway, but it seemed to do the
trick once or twice.
Not as bizarre as turning an MZ engine over while directing a hair dryer
into the intake stub, though. That worked for sure.

 

Fucking stupid an all when there's perfectly good plug weatherproof
assemblies they could have used on the bumper end of things, to avoid
the exposed live pins.

 

Any photos on the internet of these naked live pins?

 

Dunno what voltage these are, though.
http://tinyurl.com/2pwc8u

 

It must just be me. I can't concieve putting that much effort into getting
anything started. Well not unless it's a Finnish wilderness in the middle
of winter with no shelter at 23:00hrs and I've no mobile phone to hand.

I just walked away from my Duke 250 MKIII on more than one occasion.

 

ISTR that in the colder parts of the USA they do something similar.

 

Is it simply in-circuit or does it somehow drain down the coolant to
the bottle?

One wonders how much extra fuel it takes to lug the thing around and
how much energy it took to make the bottle.

 

Even in Wancouver most of the cars had little stub cables hanging
out of the engine bay, to plug the block-heater into a mains extension.

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In

Yep the hire car I used last Feb when I went to Bispgarden had such a thing
and the hotel car park had rows of the plug sockets, they're in Finland too.

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