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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Compression ratio choice
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<blockquote data-quote="TouringGodet" data-source="post: 5315" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>I, too, have always started Vins by the method described by timetraveller, including the point about turning the engine over a little bit before the first real kick. Not so much to get oil moving, but more just to get myself and the bike 'primed'. I just slowly kick through one complete travel of the kick start lever, with the valves lifted the whole time.</p><p></p><p>But bikes vary, and if you have a different method that works for you, great.</p><p></p><p>One other thing that seems to work for me is to only tickle the carbs until the threads on the bottom of the carb body get wet, I don't tickle them until it squirts out the float bowls. With the climate here in So Cal, I only recall needing the chokes one extra cold morning in December many years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TouringGodet, post: 5315, member: 27"] I, too, have always started Vins by the method described by timetraveller, including the point about turning the engine over a little bit before the first real kick. Not so much to get oil moving, but more just to get myself and the bike 'primed'. I just slowly kick through one complete travel of the kick start lever, with the valves lifted the whole time. But bikes vary, and if you have a different method that works for you, great. One other thing that seems to work for me is to only tickle the carbs until the threads on the bottom of the carb body get wet, I don't tickle them until it squirts out the float bowls. With the climate here in So Cal, I only recall needing the chokes one extra cold morning in December many years ago. [/QUOTE]
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