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Message started by DragBikeMike on 02/21/24 at 21:17:54

Title: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by DragBikeMike on 02/21/24 at 21:17:54

This motorcycle is a beautiful restoration, but it needs more levers. There are simply not enough levers to keep you busy. Riding this thing is like juggling cats, but it goes pretty darned good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALCFw5fJ_g

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by Dave on 02/22/24 at 02:37:00

It appears that it has a lever to adjust: Ignition timing, choke, fuel mixture and idle speed!

Combine that with a hand shifter......and I run out of hands! :o

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by zevenenergie on 02/22/24 at 06:39:08

And then also having to drive in the wrong lane.

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by Serowbot on 02/22/24 at 07:12:31

Oil is already on?
When is it off?
I don't want a lever for that :-?

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by MMRanch on 02/22/24 at 14:12:21

I thought one of the right levers was the throttle ?
Maybe it was the advance timing ?

Watching him ride around I kept wondering how the anti-lock brake system used to work back then ... or if it was like the brakes on my cousins Yamaha 125 single from 1962 where you just drug your feet when you wanted to stop ?
The brake expander had flipped over and he never did fix it , the muffler had fell off too ! :( :( :(

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by Dave on 02/22/24 at 14:38:17

6A786A78756669646F270 wrote:

I thought one of the right levers was the throttle ?
Maybe it was the advance timing ?

I believe you are right....the right side/bottom/front lever is the throttle.

The right side upper/rear lever is the choke.

And the bottom left lever is the ignition timing.

He never moves the upper left lever....perhaps that is the "oil" that he says is already on.

There is also a clutch lever, rear brake lever and front brake lever......7 levers in total!

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by jcstokes on 02/22/24 at 17:05:42

Just typical of a British and perhaps Continental bike of that period. Oil could have been controleed by a lever but just as likely a tap. Oil could well have been total loss system.

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by MMRanch on 02/22/24 at 18:36:33

Dad (long ago) told me about a car he had long ago :

So , ya turn the oil on and it drips through the engine then onto the ground , never to be recovered till the Dinosaurs come back !

Yes , you fill up the gas tank and the oil tank for every trip ! ::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by ohiomoto on 02/22/24 at 19:23:46

When men were men!

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by verslagen1 on 02/22/24 at 21:46:14

57455745485B5459521A0 wrote:

How else could spread oil on the roads to keep the dust down?

Title: Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Post by jcstokes on 02/22/24 at 21:51:37

Your dad must have been old, total loss was pretty much obsolete by 1920. Having said that, the old cars leaked and splashed oil all over the place until the Japs got involved.