Short MC film ngc

[steven c]

 I think we all have been there.....
https://youtu.be/1i-Hc5fqdqQ

[Shorty]

Been there a few times too often.  Great film.

[oldbike54]

 Any of us who grew up on those Brit bikes has been there 

 Dusty

[Rough Edge racing]

Any of us who grew up on those Brit bikes has been there 

 Dusty

  Am I the only guy who had reasonably reliable Brit Bikes?   

[TOMB]

And he's riding on the wrong side of the road.
TOMB

[oldbike54]

  Am I the only guy who had reasonably reliable Brit Bikes?   

 Oh mine were normally fairly reliable , then again I had the ability to rebuild one on the side of the road  Well , most of the time anyway 

 Dusty

[Rough Edge racing]

Oh mine were normally fairly reliable , then again I had the ability to rebuild one on the side of the road  Well , most of the time anyway 

 Dusty

  Yes, I had a few problems but the old turds always made it back home   .....The Triumph shown in the film is a re badged BSA and were known to be unreliable..

[oldbike54]

  Yes, I had a few problems but the old turds always made it back home   .....The Triumph shown in the film is a re badged BSA and were known to be unreliable..

 Yeah , based on the B25 , never have actually seen a Blazer in real life , although I have owned a Triumph TR5MX Avenger , which was really a B50 MX . It was fairly fast , but fragile .

 Dusty

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

For about the first 300 miles after I "de-mothballed" my '77 Yamaha XT500 back in '09, it would do almost the same exact thing. When the odometer rolled over 1000 miles (it only had 660 when I bought it) it stopped doing that and was a reliable 1 or 2 kick starter hot or cold. But, if it sat more than two weeks, it would take a dozen kicks or more to start, then it was back to 1 or 2. Weird.

British big singles were the influence for the XT, but perhaps Yamaha took a little too far. 

[steven c]

My XT350 will do this to me,no rhyme or reason. It will start one to three kicks, hot, cold, cooling down, then it just doesn't want to start without trying to give me a heart attack , but
 it will always starts, so far.

[inditx]

Yep, '69 Bonneville.......

[SED]

a B44 growth experience - 

[Rough Edge racing]

Yep, '69 Bonneville.......

 If a Triumph twin doesn't start one one or two kicks hot or cold, you need to check the engine tune or kicking technique...

[larrys]

Well, if someone wanted a good candidate to break down in the middle of nowhere he picked the right bike... None of my Bonnevilles ever left me stranded, but I wrenched on 'em regularly.
When I lived in England, on my way to work one day I spotted a Commando dead on the side of the road. Crankcases broken at the cylinder base! Yikes! Sat there for four days before it disappeared.
Larry

[twowings]

Simply brilliant!

This short little gem could provide hours of discussion about man's relationship to the machines he has created ostensibly to make life easier but giving rise to new levels of complication...whic h give rise to new depths of introspection...

Listen to the universe when it talks to you!

Robert M. Pirsig is looking on from somewhere and smiling...