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MarkCR750:
Well after a mere 3.5k miles, she's finally missed a beat 👀, just rode 14 miles, stopped in Ashbourne market place and it stalled, pressed the starter, turning over merrily but not a hint of starting, tried several times, nowt, held the throttle wide open and she fired up, now ridden 10 miles and stopped for a drink, I'm leaving it 20 minutes or so to cool to see if we could be looking at something heat related, I'll check the choke isn't partially stuck on before I start her again as it just occurred to me that it could tie in with the full throttle start, anyway I'll probably have to stick to my uber reliable Italian bikes going forward 😄, fingers crossed for the next start!.

PS an old fella just said "what a lovely bike, is it a Norton?", how wrong can you get!😄

mike the bike:
Uber reliable Italian?  Wash you mouth with brake fluid!

Trigger:
Brake fluid is too kind, try battery acid  ;D
I heard that bike start up at Crich and she sounded spot on, even after her journey to the TT.

MarkCR750:
Well she started first touch of the button, so god knows what happened in Ashbourne, good job because I'd got an audience by the time I left , I approached the bike willing it to start and it did so I like it again now 😄, I would as always be the first to vouch for the unflinching reliability of these fine machines!.

Trigger, what you didn't see at Crich was the bike almost cutting out about 2 minutes later, pilot error on that occasion I had forgotten to fully return the choke 😄

Trigger:
If you ever get bored of her, I have a £500 note for her  ;D ;D

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