Right, so here we are. We're just pulling away, in first gear, a few revs,
and gently into second. So we've got the lever throttles on the bottom, so I'm adjusting the lever
all the time. So we're in second gear at the moment. Now we'll just get into third, so lever
back towards me into top. I just hear the revs drop off a little bit. It settles down so now we're...
ignition's fully advanced, so we're good to go. Just check behind there's nothing around us, all well.
So now we'll just, we'll gradually there speed up a bit, gather some pace. Air lever's fully open.
And we're just rattling along as you can see. We haven't got a speedo so
I don't really know what speed we're doing. But my feeling was we're probably about 40 miles an hour, 45
maybe. So we're just probably nearer to 40 to be honest. So we just kind of keep plodding on like
this. There's a slight incline so she's labouring a little bit. We'll just touch the ignition off,
retard it a little bit, just to slow it down, slow the engine right down. So off we go. But we're now levelling
out again, so we fully advance the ignition. A little bit more throttle. It's nice, we're just
cruising along quite happily. The steering damper's on the top, we'll just give that a twist down, it's worked
a little bit loose. Just we're a little bit flighty so we're just coming into the village now.
Slowing down slightly, so we're doing a guess at 30. We'll just knock the ignition off a little bit.
So I reckon we're somewhere around about there. The sun's come out which is quite pleasant.
So stay in top gear, just a little bit more retard. Just gradually trickle through.
I missed most of the puddles. On the lever. Keep the air fully open, so the air is kind of a
bit like a choke really. So just a cold morning, so we have let the bike
warm up slightly as we were going along. But now she's running nicely, just hear the engine
nicely ticking over. And just coming through, still in top gear, there's no need to change
down. Just have a quick check behind make sure there's no one about to come across us. That's good.
Now coming through the trees into this. National speed limit, so
we just advance the ignition, open the throttle a little bit, air fully open,
and she's just gathering a bit of momentum now. Just a quick look down.
We've got an oil feed sight glass, just a bit of water on top of it at the minute. So we've
got an oil through, that's the main thing. We've got an auxiliary hand pump but we don't really need to
use that. We have got a mechanical pump so that's that's pumping the oil through all the time. And
you can see a little drip, so just keep a check on it, make sure there's a nice globular oil forming
as it drops through, let's another one through. So see a little bit bumpy, rigid rear end
and the girder forks. But the girder forks do pretty good, you know, we're on
tyre pressure is about 20 - 24, something around there, 22 - 24.
So, you know, you don't want the tyres too hard because that gives you some of the cushioning.
So yeah, so we're just running along quite nice. Bumping around. And it's quite a spindly little
bike, and you do need to keep a reasonable grip, that's why with the steering damper, we just keep
tweaking that every now and then. Make sure that it's nicely down, keeps us nice and stable.
Went through the trees. Yep she's going well. So just coming through, right. Coming up to a
junction, so just a quick check behind. All okay And just an easy second gear, nice and early.
Indicate, so it's hand out. Just drop down into first. Quick check across the road.
Anything about, there's nothing coming, so off we go. So we're in first again. Accelerate away. Quite
a wide ratio gearbox. It does take a little while to get some momentum. But now we're
into second already. Still ignition's fully advanced. Just check behind, all is well. We're still in second.
I think we're about ready to come into top now. So into top gear, revs drop off, make sure
fully advanced. The thing is with these wide ratio gearbox's, we've only got three
speed gearbox, and so it does take a little while for momentum to build. But now you can start to
feel, we're starting to get there. The road surface is a little bit rippled. This is actually a more
main road, but it's probably slightly more bumpy than what it was on. So yeah, out on the open
road. We're cruising along quite nicely. Bumping along. Catching up some cars. It's okay.
Oh, there's somebody overtaking us. Unfortunately it's not going to
get terribly far because we're about to catch another stream of cars. So yeah, just going along.
Keep checking we're fully advanced. Air fully open despite being cold. We've got a lot of braking
going on now. So brakes are not too bad. I mean the problem is, because you've got the lever throttle
and the front brake is on the right hand handlebar as well, you kind of need...
trying to use your hands at the same time. So just knock off a bit of throttle, we shouldn't need
to change down. We just retard the ignition slightly, hear the engine note drop off, and
away we go. No need to change down, as we open the throttle, we advance the ignition at the same time.
Off we go. I mean this is where you start to lose out a little bit to vehicles because
we just haven't got... in a four-speed gearbox you would have dropped down at least a third
there and so that would have given you, you know, you just lose your momentum. But
this is the fairly early days, so someone that's had a three-speed gearbox since the veteran period,
so they were quite advanced in that respect. But yeah, it goes well so .
getting back into momentum. A slight bit of an incline here, but she's going all right.
Heading back towards another speed limit coming up. So we'll start to break down. I'm
just going to knock off the ignition and start to indicate. There we go. Quite difficult, people
don't really know what we're doing. I think we'll just slip the clutch a little bit here.
We didn't actually understand what we're doing there but, so we're fully retarded.
And there we go, that's today. I'm just accelerating up nicely.
Coming through a 30 limit. Coming along, we still haven't
changed down yet. There's no need. She's going along all right.
Going along quite well.
Here we go.
I reckon that will be enough.