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<blockquote data-quote="greg brillus" data-source="post: 146722" data-attributes="member: 597"><p>I've used both coil and magnetos for road bikes and for racing.......They are as good and bad as each other......It's only a matter of when any of them can fail.......But 9 times out of 10 its poor or nil maintenance that can result in failure........Most folk are hopeless with electrics anyway so that does not help........Some set ups are definitely better than others.......as far as magnetos, well the Scintilla is the best of the ones made to suit the Vincent, but these are hard to find and harder to find parts for, so that rules them out........electronic ignitions are not without their faults as well.......The main thing i don't like about most of them is the lack of adjust-ability in the advance curve.......So when someone asks me which is better, it is hard to give an answer because they all have good and bad points to them. From a simplicity point of view, a properly rebuilt magneto is hard to better.......Battery or no battery, it will still get you home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg brillus, post: 146722, member: 597"] I've used both coil and magnetos for road bikes and for racing.......They are as good and bad as each other......It's only a matter of when any of them can fail.......But 9 times out of 10 its poor or nil maintenance that can result in failure........Most folk are hopeless with electrics anyway so that does not help........Some set ups are definitely better than others.......as far as magnetos, well the Scintilla is the best of the ones made to suit the Vincent, but these are hard to find and harder to find parts for, so that rules them out........electronic ignitions are not without their faults as well.......The main thing i don't like about most of them is the lack of adjust-ability in the advance curve.......So when someone asks me which is better, it is hard to give an answer because they all have good and bad points to them. From a simplicity point of view, a properly rebuilt magneto is hard to better.......Battery or no battery, it will still get you home. [/QUOTE]
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