Well., Billy has performed well over the last week. Been on 2 "away trips", neither were eventful. Bonus being, the battery has stayed charged - downside being, the forks are definitely chucking it out.
I painted the stays and re-fitted the leg shields - ugly as a bag of spanners, but they are original, and they were with the bike when I got it. The bearings and seals for the crankshaft & gearbox in the original engine rebuild are looking terribly expensive (quoted £88.00, $125USD). Estimates of fuel consumption rests at about 90 m.p.g. Today I tried to push the bike past 50m.p.h. but it wont do it, plenty of more throttle and carb noise - just no more speed.... have to investigate... Hmmm, the leg shields are amplifying the already noisy engine... minor annoyance.

The jumping out of 2nd is a real chore... shall I do a hasty strip just to fix it? and spread the rebuild of the original engine over the winter considering how much the bits are working out to?

I found an old, but unused gasket set in my "bantam pile" - so I intend to scan all the gaskets and keep them on file on the PC. Then I can just print new gaskets onto gasket paper... kewl idea?

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