Killer MZ

Wotcha.

Today the MZ tried to kill me, or to be more accurate, tried to get me
killed. We had just fed and had left the cafe, I noticed my jacket wasn't
zipped up properly so I pulled over and stopped. By coincidence, a couple
of fellow Moonshiners were coming the other way, and they in turn pulled in.
We stood and talked for five minutes and then got ready to go. I started
the MZ. It ran for all of ten or twelve seconds then the engine died - I
started it again - it ran for a few seconds then died . . . . . but just as
the engine was turning its last BANG - the loudest backfire you ever
heard. The bloody thing did this twice. [1] Nothing dangerous about that I
hear you say.


Did I mention that I'd stopped outside the perimeter fence of RAF Cosford
- and the fellow looking at us happened to have access to firearms ?

I'm sure the bike laughed.





[1] Loose wire on the ignition coil

 

Haha, my ex-girlfriend is doing her weapons technician (armourer)
training there at the moment. I know it wasn't her looking down the
barrel of a gun at you because she's on leave at the mo. If it had been
her she'd have stood there laughing at you and shouting that you should
buy a Jap bike.

 

That means the timing has slipped. Again. Or, to be precise, the points
cam has moved against its vestigial Woodruff key. Sweller will explain.
But it means removing points, points cam, reassembling and re-timing.

 

My money's on there being a loose wire on the ignition coil...


--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

You'd be wrong. It was backfiring before Sweller diagnosed the errant
points cam. That's the problem, sho'nuff.

 

<chortle>

 

Pound of bacon and bottle of honey says that Krusty is right.

 

You see that '[' you left in before your snip? I'll sell you the
footnote that belongs to it for a quid (plus another 50 for postage,
natch).

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

<G> Memo to self. Read foototes.

 

Heh. No takers.

 

BGN wrote:

Wotcha.

You mean my bike tried to do away with me 'cos my clock is wrong ?

<looks at clock on wall> ten to six

<looks at clock on screen> 17:50

<looks at watch> ten to six>

Must be one of them Gremlin things.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Wotcha.

Here's me thinking it was 'cos my clock is wrong <g>

 

Looks at time of post: 06:51PM

Hang on:

Your computer thinks it's on GMT, and you've corrected the time to
compensate. You need to tell it to apply daylight saving automatically,
then set the time correctly.

 

You own an MZ and an Enfield, you are the bastard love-child of WUN and
Sweller...think again.

 

It wouldn't have really been an hour out, it's just that the format
string you've used for the timestamp doesn't include a time zone, which
would make it correct.

If you kept it to yourself it would be fine, but it mucks up the
timestamp on your posts, which are seen by everyone else.

Never mind, it'll sort itself out in six weeks or so...

 

Eddie wrote:

Wotcha.

I think I tried that once - and every time I did any work on the club
webpage the timestamp was always an hour out - or summat.

If my computer being an hour out is all I have to worry about, then I reckon
I've got an easy life.

 

Pass the mind bleach doctor.

 

Lozzo wrote:

Wotcha

<<hides Nuovo Falcone & Drifter>>

Eww - I feel dirty now ;-)

 

You've had sidecars, too, haven't you?

How do you think I feel?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

I'm half-afeared to ask which way round the "by" and "out of" come.

TBF, neither prospect pleases.