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I feel I know this bike is it a members ?
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Currently 7 bids so far at £2k shown as reserve not met, I think I have seen this bike up for sale on Gumtree previously.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Looks like it sold for £2499 plus any extra charges.
Murf:
‘modified to only start on kick start (much cooler by all accounts)’ 😂😂😂😂😂,
Having started biking in the days of the British 2 stroke running on 20:1 premix and the 500cc single with Lucas electrics there is nothing cool about kicking a bike over 🤬🥵🤬🥵🤬🥵🤬
Then again I didn’t have a brown seat so maybe missed something?
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Oh the joy of British two strokes - my Ariel Leader was a pig to start from stone cold - once it ran it was fine for the rest of the day.
I found by accident that if you removed the right side pamel and pushed down the little button on the carb float chamber it would flood and then start first kick.
I ended up drilling a small hole in the side panel and fashioned a length of weding rod that I attached to the float button with some plastic tubing. More plasic on the outside to make it look tidy & to stop the rod falling inside the panel.
When I later bought an Ariel Arrow - as it was not enclosed so easy to start.
We complain about 400 brakes - the Ariel was in the bottom division of the lowest league - not helped by the way the trailing link front forks responded. Lots of drama a the front wheel dipped but not much actual slowing down. Happy days.
Johnny4428:
And a lot of truth in the myth that the number of kicks is based on the number of people watching you trying to start the f…….g thing.😜
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