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DragBikeMike Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 4207 Honolulu	Classic Needs More Levers 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
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Online SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 17824 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #1 - 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!
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zevenenergie Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1250 The Netherlands Den Haag	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #2 - 02/22/24 at 06:39:08 And then also having to drive in the wrong lane.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28377 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #3 - 02/22/24 at 07:12:31 Oil is already on? When is it off? I don't want a lever for that
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Reply #4 - 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 ! Sad

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Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Reply #5 - 02/22/24 at 14:38:17

MMRanch wrote on 02/22/24 at 14:12:21:

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!

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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #6 - 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.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5731 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #7 - 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 !
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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2691 WTF is JOG?	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #8 - 02/22/24 at 19:23:46 When men were men!
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Re: Classic Needs More Levers
Reply #9 - 02/22/24 at 21:46:14

MMRanch wrote 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 ! Roll Eyes

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

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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Classic Needs More Levers Reply #10 - 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.
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