TOG, Wegg, etc etc and bike repairs!

My old MZ Supa Five certainly did once. I know I've told this once
before, but....

I'd just rebuilt it (new crank) and went down the road to the petrol
station. First shakedown run.

As I turned into the forecourt, it started dying. I frantically twisted
the grip and it picked up. Let the clutch out and it shot backwards into
the traffic.

I was utterly, absolutely, shellshocked.

I'd got the timing wrong, and as it was dying, it had basically bounced
off compression, and re-started, running backwards.

I wouldn't have believed it if someone else had told me it could happen.
But it did.

 

The Older Gentleman said...

Early E model RDs did too, because Yamaha in their wisdom mounted the
Cdi unit with the cabling poking upwards right in front of the rear
wheel. in heavy rain the bike could stutter at traffic lights and run
backwards. They were unofficially recalled and mounted the other way up
with a wiring loom extension.

 

Heh I do that almost daily

 

Heh. Wish I'd seen that.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

For a shag?

 

My D did too once. That was the day I discovered I couldn't reach the
ground whilst sat on the tank.


--
Krusty.

http://www.muddystuff.co.uk
http://www.muddystuff.us
Off-road classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger (FOYRNB) '96 Tiger '79 Fantic 250

 

Every four weeks, for a weekend, by train.

 

One of my TS 150s was happily running ready for me to set off for work
and as I wound open the throttle and dumped the clutch it shot backwards
and put a great big dent in the car's door (surprise, surprise, a Saab
900).

Hooray for shoddy maintenance.

 

I seem to remember that being used as a cheap way to provide
reverse on a bubble car or two.

Ken Young

 

Well I have a garage there too

 

you shag in the garage? how original. And what does the object of your
attentions have to say about this?

 

Before or afterwards?

 

Krusty said...

Serves you right for setting the points closer to TDC, instead of the
factory settings. The RD400C and D ran out of power 500 revs higher at
1.8 BTDC instead of the factory 2.3mm and the power came in harder at
6500 revs too. You didn't want to take it much closer though or the risk
of detonation was too high.

 

Linked, in a way, to this...

http://www.apss.org.uk/projects/smaller/nomad/detail/index.htm

Ferk.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

Hah! I see your Napier Nomad and raise you a Rolls-Royce Eagle:

http://www.enginehistory.org/eagle_22.htm

 

Good grief the cases appear to be milled from solid or at least a very
rough blank. The finishing on the crankshafts and rods is a joy to
behold though.

 

Heh. Look at the production pics for the Bristol Hydra:

http://www.enginehistory.org/bristol_hydra.htm

If you listen carefully, you might just hear Nigel achieve Immaculate
Conception...

 

bloody amazing, innit.

 

http://www.enginehistory.org/nasm2.htm

pictures of loads of 'em, including the one I was looking for, the Wasp
Major, aka "corncob".

and loads of pictures of the nomad, as well.