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Just thought about some of my bikes i had when i was younger (42+ years ago).
My bikes had a "Tickler" on them, lets see how many different answers we get and if you know the correct answer don't post it so we can keep some people guessing, just say yes if you know the answer.
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Yes, and a few years down the road you could ask about the petcock and the choke.
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Yes, I have about 19 bikes that have at least one, some more than 1. One of them isn't even British.
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yes, middle finger is good for that....... 
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Every 70 and back I have ever rode needed a tickle to get started after sitting awhile. Degreases one fingernail, somewhat effectively.
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I'm looking for the spark advance/retard and compression lifter 
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ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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You talking about Ken Dodd ? 
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The "tickler"is right up there with the floor mounted starter button on my old truck.
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I liked the floor starter pedal like on my 51 Chevy truck also had a choke and throttle knobs.I have one bike with timing advance on the handlebars. The one I had with compression relief valve wasn't that old, was a 74 DT360.
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My 47 knuckle had the advance at the grip but my 53 pan had been disconnected and you had to grab the distributor and move it . Ahhhh the good ole days lol  every old English bike I've had , had to be tickled to start
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My 47 knuckle had the advance at the grip but my 53 pan had been disconnected and you had to grab the distributor and move it . Ahhhh the good ole days lol every old English bike I've had , had to be tickled to start
"Back in the day"My friend had a 1942 Harley chopper that you had to move the distributor by hand too.All my previous Triumphs all needed a "tickle"
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Ken Dodd and his Diddymen, brings back memories.
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I tickle the 69 till it squirts
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I am 57 and my wife is 58 do we are both vintage models. All of these years and our ticklers still work fine. 
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Amal carbs had a tickler button, other than that the only one I've ever heard of was French.
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We had ticklers on all sorts of small motors, bikes, lawn mowers etc they wouldn't start if you didn't tickle them. But if you tickled them too much they would dribble
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Amal carbs had a tickler button, other than that the only one I've ever heard of was French.
You weren't supposed to give away what a tickler was to see what responses we get.
My BMW has them.
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Does that mean that there are also "French Ticklers" as well as "English Ticklers"?
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The "Tickler", you ask?! Wasn't that what's attacking Vincent Price here...  (...oh...wait...that was the "TINGLER", wasn't it...sorry...never mind) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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When I first saw the title of the thread I thought of an uncle of one of my friends when I was kid. Weird dude. We all avoided him.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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The "Tingler" scared me to death when i was about 8.
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The "Tingler" scared me to death when i was about 8.
Vincent Price scared me I think he would have liked to tickle.
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Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Boris Karloff were my favorite actors when I was a kid. Used to watch those old horror movies with my grandmother every weekend.
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The "Tingler" scared me to death when i was about 8.
Wasn't that the movie that came to some theaters with a special "electric" device? A small vibrating disk that taped under the seat and could be made to go off at the right moment in the film. Read about that somewhere... 
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Rich you're not talking about some "adult" theatre are you?
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I think they call those VIP theatres now. The seat the floor everything vibrates and I can think about a few movies I would like too see in them.
I know what you are thinking I'm talking about "from here to eternity" or "the guns of navarone" although 7 1/2 nights would be pretty good on that format as well.
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Actually Paul, what I believe Rich was referring to in this case was one of Hollywood "schlockmeister" movie producer William Castle's gimmicks he'd use to sell his low budget horror films to the movie-going public back in the '50s and '60s, and in this case he named it "Percepto" and which entailed having a selected number of seats in a few of the larger movie theaters that showed "The Tingler" fitted with little electrical buzzers under the bottom cushion. At certain key points during the screening those buzzers would be activated by a movie usher and making it feel to whoever sat in those particular seats as if something was crawling under the movie patron, and thus with the hope of starling them enough to scream out loud.
(...I think what you are talking about might be more a thing I remember having my first experience with when I watched the movie "Earthquake" during its initial release at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood back in 1974, and an effect which was known as "Sensurround")
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I also watched Earthquake in sensurround and Towering Inferno in the theatre next door that got the shaking from the Earthquake movie.
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Actually Paul, what I believe Rich was referring to in this case was one of Hollywood "schlockmeister" movie producer William Castle's gimmicks he'd use to sell his low budget horror films to the movie-going public back in the '50s and '60s, and in this case he named it "Percepto" and which entailed having a selected number of seats in a few of the larger movie theaters that showed "The Tingler" fitted with little electrical buzzers under the bottom cushion. At certain key points during the screening those buzzers would be activated by a movie usher and making it feel to whoever sat in those particular seats as if something was crawling under the movie patron, and thus with the hope of starling them enough to scream out loud.
(...I think what you are talking about might be more a thing I remember having my first experience with when I watched the movie "Earthquake" during its initial release at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood back in 1974, and an effect which was known as "Sensurround")
I was joking as usual Dwight.I never mean any harm.Rich is my friend[I know,I know, I have a weird sense of humour]
Here awhile back they tried to revive the "3-D glasses "concept.I heard about it once then no more.
I remember as a kid see "How the West was Won" on some special screen or Sensurround or whatever .It had me nearly off my seat when cannon went off signalling the start of the Civil war.That,whatever it was,was a worthwhile concept IMO.
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Actually Paul, what I believe Rich was referring to in this case was one of Hollywood "schlockmeister" movie producer William Castle's gimmicks he'd use to sell his low budget horror films to the movie-going public back in the '50s and '60s, and in this case he named it "Percepto" and which entailed having a selected number of seats in a few of the larger movie theaters that showed "The Tingler" fitted with little electrical buzzers under the bottom cushion. At certain key points during the screening those buzzers would be activated by a movie usher and making it feel to whoever sat in those particular seats as if something was crawling under the movie patron, and thus with the hope of starling them enough to scream out loud.
(...I think what you are talking about might be more a thing I remember having my first experience with when I watched the movie "Earthquake" during its initial release at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood back in 1974, and an effect which was known as "Sensurround")
I was joking as usual Dwight.I never mean any harm.Rich is my friend[I know,I know, I have a weird sense of humour]
Here awhile back they tried to revive the "3-D glasses "concept.I heard about it once then no more.
I remember as a kid see "How the West was Won" on some special screen or Sensurround or whatever .It had me nearly off my seat when cannon went off signalling the start of the Civil war.That,whatever it was,was a worthwhile concept IMO.
Actually Paul, my reply/explanation here wasn't directed to you DOWN under there, but to the other Paul UP there and north of me in Canada.
(...ya see, THIS is the great thing about havin' a more unusual name like "Dwight"...there's few of us around and so a lesser chance of confusion like this) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh, and Paul(yeah, YOU down under there ), regarding this part of your previous post... Quote:
I remember as a kid see "How the West was Won" on some special screen or Sensurround or whatever .It had me nearly off my seat when cannon went off signalling the start of the Civil war.That,whatever it was,was a worthwhile concept IMO.
...what you're probably remembering here was the short-lived wide-screen movie process called "Cinerama"(not to be confused with the "CinemaScope" process, btw) and which entailed having three separate movie cameras filming the same scenes within a movie(later a single camera was used), and then having three separate film projectors projecting the images during the viewing process. The problem with this complicated system was that all three cameras and all three projectors had to be perfectly synchronized in order for it to function correctly. And yes, back then one of the main selling points to the public for seeing "How the West Was Won" was the novelty of watching that star-studded film in that format.
(...and once again in MY case, it was watching this particular movie upon its initial release at the newly built Cinerama Dome theater situated along Sunset Blvd in Hollywood)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I guess that was it Dwight.I enjoyed it very much I remember.I must have to stick in my mind for 50 years!
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I saw Sound of Music in the Cinerama theatre in Detroit and maybe Ben Hur. They would show B&W news reels before the big feature then the three projectors would start rolling and all were suitably impressed. Now we have Imax.
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I watched an IMAX 3D film about coral reefs a couple of years back. Pretty cool stuff. But I HATE the regular 3D films and never go to them. The last one I watched was "John Carter of Mars", a not very good movie. And the 3D just made it worse. (Darn shame, I LOVED the books when I was a teenager!)
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Upon closer examination combing through the cobwebs of the pre-teen years and with a little help from the Internet I realize that those movies were not shown in Cinerama and it was just the majesty of the theatre in Detroit that left such an impression on the younger me. I did see Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in Detroit but that was shot in Ultra Panavision 70
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Some movies should never be watched except on the "big screen" at the theater. M M M M World might be one, but for sure Lawrence of Arabia, the Heston Ben Hur, Gone With The Wind and many more. TV screens just don't do it.
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Some movies should never be watched except on the "big screen" at the theater. M M M M World might be one, but for sure Lawrence of Arabia, the Heston Ben Hur, Gone With The Wind and many more. TV screens just don't do it.
 Yep.I watched "Saving Private Ryan" at the movies before it came on Video/DVD TV etc and it was MUCH better at the movies
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