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Did your battery come back up.?
Thanks Masonmart, yes it’s a nice thing considering it was made as a workman’s commuter back in the 50’s, well the handover to Father didn’t happen!, it ran beautifully on Saturday evening but on Sunday morning it resolutely refused to start, no idea why but the spark was weak, the night before it was very good, so I’m picking up an electrex electronic ignition kit for it on Friday, I had planned to fit one eventually but will do it straight away, also having it rebored, I’ve picked up a NOS oversize piston so I’ll get that done as well, I’ll be good for a few thousand miles then.
I had this T250 up until a couple of years ago, no problem keeping up with traffic on that as you know with your super six they go like stink!, no wonder so many 17 year olds came to grief on them back in the day, as you say the older 2 strokes are a different story, 60 mph flat out for the James and about a week to get there, worse than that though are the brakes, bloody terrifying by modern standards!
I seem to remember that the condensers used to fail for a passtime and that could be your weak spark.