3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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ol Bombero-JC wrote:When I was an older teenager I lived in Alberta. I recall the speed traps in a large city. One guy monitoring the radar unit, another by the crosswalk, ready to walk over and wave in the errant speeder and two M/C cops sitting on their idling Harley police bikes , ready to jam it in first and run down any who tried to run. I parked my VW Bug in the adjoining parking lot watching it all, until I was asked to move along, as there was nothing to see here , kid.
lesmore - that "little window on the head" is (as usual) a brilliant
Japanese innovation/feature! Why couldn't the Brits think of stuff like that?
I always had easy-to-start Triumph twins - but got to share the Matchless "experience" a few times (friend's bikes, etc.).
I remember the Triumph twins well. Back in the '70's a friend had a 750 Bonneville. Great handling, lovely tune coming out of those twin pipes...speedometer that would hit 40 mph, then shake it's way backward to 30 mph, even though I was still going 40.:h
Back to the "window". For some reason I thought I should have a 500 single,
and bought a (new) '74 Triumph TR5 MX. It's really a BSA B50 MX - last of the BSA Victor line. BSA went out of business, so the "badging" was changed to Triumph. The owner's manual was still BSA.
My Matchless Scrambler is , as you probably know the exact twin of the Norton Scrambler....Norton engine, shoehorned in a Matchless frame, extended Norton Roadholder forks...they were badge engineered by AMC...kind of like your Triumph/BSA single.
Anyway - NO window! Same starting procedure with the compression release.
You *DID* get to learn the hard way if you got it wrong!
I'll end my "hi-jack" with fond memories of a pair of LAPD motor cops that used to sit in front of a sandwitch shop around the corner from my house on their kick-start Harleys.
Nice So. CA weather, good food, good lookin' waitress, and a stop light in front.
What more could a bike cop want - except maybe an electric starter!
They would (hopefully) be set at just past TDC for the *BIG* kick to catch an errant driver.
Giant macho "leap of faith" when the time came. Bad karma, bad language,
image down the tubes - when it "bit" 'em. Great spectator sport for a kid.
JC
