Note to self - starting bikes in garages

Note to self, when starting a bike in a garage it's generally a good
idea to have at least one door open and even better through ventilation.
Particularly so when you have stuck some K&N type pod air filters on a
SO Morini that has done a fair few miles and was probably already setup
a tad rich to give good acceleration on the completely open intake
elbows it was running for hill climbs. "Kippered", would be close, but a
not totally combusted petrol smoked one. Having said that, it settled
down to a remarkably steady idle at about 1500. Should be able to get
that even lower using the Morgan mercury U-tube and tweaking the slow
running mixture and throttle stops. By all accounts, once I fit the NLM
ignition pickup it'll tickover like a gas engine.

The filters mute the intake noise just a bit, so you can hear the valve
gear ticking more than before (though opening up one slightly tight
tappet won't have helped that). Possibly a bit of side play on the
rockers and once it is on the road I can fiddle with the adjustable
trunnions and/or shims.

Throttle response is very good once warm. My I love the sound of a 72
degree V twin at highish revs and the 2:1 vestigial system doesn't do
too much to subdue it. It got through the MoT OK last time with it on so
fingers crossed.


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I saw the subject line and thought your bike had become possessed ...

Paul.

 

In communiqué

Sometimes I wonder. It has no electric start though, so even weird
Italian electrical gremlins if inadvertently left with the ignition on
are ruled out.

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Particularly when the throttle cable is jammed open on a freshly
re-assembled monkey bike with three semi automatic gears and no
clutch.

Not that I've ever been chasing a monkey bike down the road in
Kensington in the middle of the night at all, you understand.

 

Try it with an infrequently used KH500 and report back to me later ...

 

I've more sense than to even start up the GFR 125 in there.

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I wish I had. At least I never did it twice.

 

Or ditto used Ariel Arrow/Leader...

 

no, of course not.

Hahaha.

 

Thankfully when I had my Ariel Leader I didn't have a garage in which to
start it. It was pretty good at laying down a smokescreen out on the road.
Once this obscured my view of my friend's Norton Jubilee seizing up behind me
as he tried desperately to keep up at a heady 75mph. There's something rather
perversely entertaining about a bike that not only smokes like a pack of
Woodbines but is also pig-ugly into the bargain.

 

Hah, yes, I sometimes fire up the YZ in the shed. I get out with eyes
streaming and throat burning. The blue haze wafts out of the door for
a couple of minutes afterwards.

 

I bet it was a dirty bastard too.

 

Yeah, but I wouldn't have wanted to shag it.

 

Oh, then you won't know if it smoked after sex...

 

I think I hear it running in the back ground

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