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I like to be able to get my bike running again when it quits along the road and when I have to fix it when I get home I would rather spend $8 on a set of points than $300 to $600 on a CDI.

Maybe not total loss but I do ride a bike that has manual timing advance.



Well ya see Ian, in all the years I've owned my MODERN Triumph, I've NEVER been "stranded on the road" by THAT one, BUT I sure could tell you a few stories about "being stranded" on some of the old Brit bikes I've had in the PAST, including that one time ALL that smoke escaped from my '66 BSA Lightning's Lucas wiring harness while some 100 miles or so from home, back in the so-called "Good Ole Days"!

(...and thus the VERY reason WHY modern bikes ARE so much better than they were back in those "Good Ole Days"...though I know I'll never get YOU to think so, "Mr. Roadside Repair"!!!)

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)