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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"!!!)



Must have a poor mechanic or not maintained well. I have never been stranded with any of my old bikes and I rode my 66 all over the country. That includes from here to Wyoming in 36 hrs.



Yeah. I don't know how I came up with that whole "smoke escaping from the Lucas wiring harness" thing???

Must have only happened to me, huh!

And, IF "you've never been stranded", then what's with all this talk of possible "roadside repairs" and their "eventualities" you keep bringing up so often around here and use as a rationale for staying "old school", huh?! Sorry, but that sounds kind'a "contradictory" to me here, ol' buddy!

AND, while I know Steinbeck's Joad family ALSO "made it" all the way from Oklahoma to Cal-if-forn-I-A TOO in their old prewar Ford pickup truck, I suuuuure would rather be drivin' some NEWER truck than THAT if I WERE drivin' that route TODAY on the I-40 and not Route 66, dude! HELL, even IF I WERE drivin' on Route 66 for THAT matter, or what's LEFT of it anyway!!!!

(...wait...maybe I shouldn't have used that word "contradictory" up there, 'cause the LAST time I said somethin' to that effect you got ALL bent-out-of-shape and accused me of "bashing" you!!!...yeah, maybe I should use a different word there, huh...EEH, screw it...I'm gonna leave it!!!)



Nothing contradictory about it, I have had the bike shut off and chain break on me once but in each case I was either able to make a permanent repair along the road or at least get it going to get home and fix it. I carried everything I needed to get going again. I carried cable repair tools and parts too as well as timing tools and ignition parts, chain breaker and links. I even managed to open my trans along the road and fix that enough to get home on 2 different occasions. I never had a wiring issue since I always made my own soldered and simplified harness, they came with crap harnesses. I tended to fix things before they broke.

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