"Weatherlawyer" wrote in
oups.com:


That was for wimps, I had to put it in the fanny barnett's tank, pick
the bil[g]e[?] up and give it a shake.

Sorry, typo for bike; twas meant to indicate the hairy-a***d days of
yesteryear with out 125 2strokes

I'm just trying to think what was used in the transmition of olde
ynglishe 2strokes. And what the alternative to a Francis Barnett was.
I know I had one but that's all.

You could never forget a Beezer Bantam! And Villiers engines were in a
whole bunch of bikes; I can only remember the James.

Anyway it was after that that some Russian or Ironic-hurting
country-man invented the oilway through the crank idea and gave Jawa
an all too brief, 15 minutes of fame.

Oh, Gawd, I had an abortionate CZ.

It had a declutch on the gear stick, which if you kept pressure on the
pedal to make sure it was properly engaged - we all did - negated your hand
clutch so you thought you were in a neutral. So you gave the gears another
prod, by the time you remembered about the gear clutch you could be
anywhere.

And the dual purpose kickstarter and gear lever, which meant that the
kickstarter was leftfooted. And if you stalled out you had to get into
neutral, pull out the gear pedal and rotate it into kickstart position,
start (with your left foot), put the kickstart back into gearstick mode.
grt into gear and move off.

This with half of London's taxis buses and delivery vans on your back
mudguard.

And the electrics that didn't switch off with the ignition (the czechs like
to freewheel down hills with horns blar... peeping, hence the extra luxury
of a false neutral between all gears) so the kids can turn your lights on
and toot the horn.

And if that had transmission oil.

Just about everything had a primary chaincase with clutch on the gearbox
sprocket, and a separate gearbox, which you fill and forget.

mike