I liked it better when there was a magneto in one corner of the triangular side casting and a dynamo in the other corner. Nowadays, I wouldn't even mind having to continually replace the selenium rectifiers and having the lights slowly dim 'till the battery dropped off to around 4 volts. Back then, there was very little short of a rod through the crankcase that you couldn't (and hadn't) fixed on the side of the road.

Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python