Looks like a nice bike. John Ulver rebuilt several Vincents and also had a Bonneville Salt Flats bike that run in the 150 mph range. His wife also rode a Vincent.
The 2 TYs are running great and hopefully will be running great when the grandsons visit next time. I have been ignoring this RL250 that came with the blue ty purchase. I was surprised with some fresh gas it started right up and sounds pretty good. Reading some reviews online it seems they were not ...
With everything else going on, I did finally get some work done on the upper frame member. After 70 years of sludge buildup in the oil tank and no real good way of cleaning it out I decided to install a cleanout. I had tried the old nuts, bolts and gas to scour it clean but was still not satisfied. ...
We were discussing this very topic today on a vintage bike forum. Many vintage bikes had magnetos that were marginal at best. Of course some of their weakness was due to capacitors. Lucas had a reputation of failing for a number of reasons. If you need, we can clean and test your plugs. Interestingl...
Is there any performance effects when using a resistor plug? It's petty common to remove the resistor from the spark plug cap and replace it with a copper wire.
I was disappointed that I couldn't get both TYs running befor my grandsons had to leave. But with the go kart, quad and one TY, we still had a good time. After laying out 5 complete TY ignitions I started testing. I also ordered a new condenser and points kit as well as B7ES plugs. Starting with the...
It's near impossible for me to see through the nickel size hole in the flywheel to adjust the points. The manual says the points gap should be between .012 and .014. and open at .07 btdc. Not sure which is more important since the ignition plate is not adjustable. If the correct settings don't corre...