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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Partial Single Seizure? Safe to ride?
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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 99542" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Just to cheer you up I will tell you the story of my nip up on the Knight. This was in the mid to late 1960s and I was happily blatting up the M1 on my way to Yorkshire to see my family when the nip up occurred. I managed to get the clutch in and cruise from the outer lane to the inner lane and pull up. The engine turned on the kick starter so I slowly went up to the next pull off, stopped and tried the compression. It seemed OK so I decided to try to get to the next junction and so proceeded all the way to Wakefield. Once there I took out the spark plugs and put a small screw driver down the plug holes and felt around. This was long before fibre optic probes etc. I could not feel any indentations etc. so decided that I might as well see if I could get back down to the south coast where I was working. No problems. I then drove down to Paris, picked up a young lady and then continued on to the South of France for a camping holiday with said young lady and all the camping gear on board. Two weeks there and then back with no problems. I continued to use the bike for years and when I did have a look inside the heads the only sign of the nip up was an 'orange peel' finish to the top of one of the pistons. This was all long before I knew that the Knight was the prototype and I had fitted an Avonaire fairing to the front of the bike and left the original Knight mudguard in place. Clearly there was not enough air flow round the engine with that combination and later I widened the hole in the front of the Avonaire to get more air round the engine. If there is a moral to this story it is that you might be lucky. If the compression is still good then treat it gently for a few miles and if it is still OK then keep using it. If you are sensitive to engines then it will let you know if it is unhappy and struggling and if it does then just be thankful that you have a Vincent and it is so easy to take the front end and heads off when one has to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 99542, member: 456"] Just to cheer you up I will tell you the story of my nip up on the Knight. This was in the mid to late 1960s and I was happily blatting up the M1 on my way to Yorkshire to see my family when the nip up occurred. I managed to get the clutch in and cruise from the outer lane to the inner lane and pull up. The engine turned on the kick starter so I slowly went up to the next pull off, stopped and tried the compression. It seemed OK so I decided to try to get to the next junction and so proceeded all the way to Wakefield. Once there I took out the spark plugs and put a small screw driver down the plug holes and felt around. This was long before fibre optic probes etc. I could not feel any indentations etc. so decided that I might as well see if I could get back down to the south coast where I was working. No problems. I then drove down to Paris, picked up a young lady and then continued on to the South of France for a camping holiday with said young lady and all the camping gear on board. Two weeks there and then back with no problems. I continued to use the bike for years and when I did have a look inside the heads the only sign of the nip up was an 'orange peel' finish to the top of one of the pistons. This was all long before I knew that the Knight was the prototype and I had fitted an Avonaire fairing to the front of the bike and left the original Knight mudguard in place. Clearly there was not enough air flow round the engine with that combination and later I widened the hole in the front of the Avonaire to get more air round the engine. If there is a moral to this story it is that you might be lucky. If the compression is still good then treat it gently for a few miles and if it is still OK then keep using it. If you are sensitive to engines then it will let you know if it is unhappy and struggling and if it does then just be thankful that you have a Vincent and it is so easy to take the front end and heads off when one has to. [/QUOTE]
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