A long time ago I bought a pile of bits that was mostly a 1959 Triumph 5TA. This engine has a distributor like a car behind the barrels. Somehow I managed to time the points on the wrong side of the cam, so instead of about 2 dgrees of advance it had maybe 50 degrees.
The loud backfires on the first couple of kicks should have warned me, but no.. on the third kick it kicked back with me at full swing on the kick start. I nearly went into orbit! Thank god for the old Alpinestars Roger De Coster "Mad MAx" motocross boots I was wearing, they probably saved me from a broken ankle. Aye, them were the days.....
My mate, the Triumph expert, laughed so hard he fell over.
[Edited on 5-3-2006 by mikesps]
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