Classic Bie?

Not even that. Some coils have very different primary resistances - use
the wrong one, and you'll kill the ignition in short order.

 

We're talking about ones with the same specs.

 

So all coils with the same spec are the same, apart from quality.

I'm so glad you pointed that out to me. I wouldn't have guessed.

 

So why say a coil with the wrong spec will cause problems? That's
pretty obvious, & completely irrelevant to what was being discussed.

 

No, it's fairly relevant when somebody's just incorrectly stated...
Think of it as expanding on...if you prefer.

 

Wotcha.

Slow, very slow.
Looks like I'll be losing this Summer too - there again, I've almost
finished the hand change on the Drifter so two wheels may not be out of the
question.

That's the thing, they are selling new Indian Bullets as "emerging
classics".
I think they are talking "potential bollocks" there.

Hmm - my Bullet is twenty years old now, time to emerge maybe ?

 

Only one of which (rare) is a given from new and the ravages of time
tends all of them towards that anyway. So it holds as much water as any
other 'system' of classification.

 

Those pesky artists just liked living in garrets.

 

So, no chance of their programme ever being called a classic then,

 

who was the lucky bottom?

 

Slow's good. The problems are bad when slow becomes stopped
That'll be interesting to see, a hand change Drifter. Good luck with
getting out and about.

Although the Injin bulletts have been around for a long time, I'd have a
500 for the right money as a rice cooker. I'd love a nice old
Continental though, that would be taking me back to my yoof when I saw a
mate go in one side of a car and out t'other at Ally Pally when on his.
I used to CIHAGM of it quite a bit, full cafe racer styleee.
Mate was surprisingly ok but SMIDSY's car was totaled.

What Bullet is your emerging classic?

 

I remember looking at an OE exhaust system for a GS550E nearly 20 years
ago and, IIRC, it was the best part of £700

 

Getting a part discounted down from a motor factor isn't quite the same
as using no name shonkyness. Getting bits from eBay probably is...

Most motor factors use good quality pattern parts (certainly the ones I
use) - such as Mahle filters, Intermotor ignition etc.

Interestingly, £20 for a Jag coil isn't cheap.
OE Lucas part £13.48:
http://www.sngbarratt.com/catalogue...ategoryid=14&stype=2&pagepos=24&back=y&next=y

 

Not surprised. Dave Silver simply went to the OE manufacturer in japan
and said: "Keep 'em coming, and I'll take this many off you every year."
The tooling would have been paid for decades ago.

The design changed slightly, a couple of years ago: the silencer was
made integral with the collector box, which was definitely a retrograde
step. And then manufacture stopped completely.

Dave Silver has now commissioned Motad to make a replica collector box,
but it isn't quite the same. Pattern header pipes are available, and
they look the same, but (critically) they aren't double-skinned like OE
Honda and so they go yellow or blue at the manifold.

 

Japanese bike parts are often stupidly expensive. The exhaust on the
Majesty was badly vrot in the usual places, Yamaha wanted 670 quid
for an OE known-to-rot replacement, I found a nice new complete
stainless replacement for 145 . **** originality - its a shopping
trolley and will never be considered a classic.

 

Context, sonny, context. In the 1960s, when points were in vogue and
they'd just gone over to negative earth systems, coils were universal.

As to that, I'd imagine that pretty much anything from a modern motor
factor's shelf would be at least the equal of something out of a Lucas
box from 1966.

 

Kevin Kline, IIRC.

 

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Unless it had Moto Guzzi written on it.

 

Did Lucas supply OE to Moto Guzzi? I know Bosch, CEV and Moto Magnetti
did.

 

They certainly did. I tested a Spada III back in the early 1990s, and
discovered it had some Lucas bits on it. As I said in the piece, it
raised the spectre of MG having run out of decent stuff, and Luigi
rootling round some dead Marinas in the local scrapyard.