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<AOL> and in fact grossly unfair. All these comments slagging lucas electrics are made by people who are dealing with an installation about 40 or 50 years old. I've seen just as many problems on 70s jap bikes that have been neglected - the connectors still get damp and corrode. When new, the lucas stuff worked well enough and as for brightness of lights and so forth, well, none of them were at the time; and there's a credible argument that modern dipped beams are too bright. and don't lets mention suzuki alternators and regulators... My GS550 had honda superdream items on it when I bought it.
I've seen the flames come out the back of a 70's Guzzi with a Lucas ignition; I've never seen them come out of my 70's Honda. Anecdotal, but good enough for me.
Somewhere near Koblenz, I heard two loud bangs from the Guzzi and thought `he's playing with the killswitch'. Then I saw the flames coming out the back. By the side of the road, when I told him about the flames, he said `which side?'. It was indeed the Lucas ignition.
Perfectly sensible question. Or not. The magic of frayed wiring and corrosion proved too much for a thirty year old bike. http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/guz_link.jpg http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/guz_coil.jpg
