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Posted: **Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:34 pm**

Weird...my VTR (both of em) never wanted to start up after being layed up for a while. Even when I started taking the battery off in winter (cold kills batteries) they were still reluctant. My silver one used to run on 1 cyl for the first 30 seconds after it hadn't been run for a while. There wasn't anything up with it per se but it was just reluctant.

Me kwakker on the other hand, parked it up last september, took battery off and stashed it indoors all winter. Fitted the battery again at the start of April and it fired up within a second of pressing the button. Mint

My husaberg was worst for starting. It was an absolute b8stard regardless of whether it had been a day or a month since it was run last!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:58 am**

When I bought mine from a mate it had sat in his shed for 4 years battery was understanderbly knackered so we got a set of jump leads a car battery and pressed the button, Brooooom first time, so I bought it

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:36 pm**

SORN'ed mine September but my willpower snapped last Tuesday n I taxed it again..beautiful sunny day..and IF

tomorrow is the same as today I'll be out playin again (and yes it statted first prod)

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:42 pm**

Both the Kwacker and the VTR SORNed, but still have the Royal Enfield taxed, mot'd and available to play with!!!!!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:54 pm**

sorned my ass, ride the bloody things all year round

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:57 pm**

lee67 wrote:sorned my ass, ride the bloody things all year round

here here.

I SORNed my ass too:

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:28 pm**

firestorm996 wrote: My silver one used to run on 1 cyl for the first 30 seconds after it hadn't been run for a while. There wasn't anything up with it per se but it was just reluctant.

i had a 1977 rd250 with the loud micron expansion chambers(louder than any modern race can) every morning the bike would only start on the right cylinder with the left trying to go,i had to hold the revs at about 5k rpm which was not quite in any means,i used to do this every morning at about 715am and it would take nearly a minuite before the bike would run on both cylinders (yamahas fault for only fitting one choke ) then i would hit the power band in every gear inc top (no speed cameras back in the early 80s) now that was fun,never got stopped for noise

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:43 pm**

aye those were the days lad.....u forgot the cloud of blue smoke tho

, still love the smell of a good 2 stroke oil....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:24 pm**

Back in 1977.....I was four years old then mate.

Bet you were popular though eh!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:34 pm**

in 1977 i was 16 & had a FS1E

but in 78 i had a RD250E.

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:37 pm**

In 1977 i had a raleigh grifter

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:41 pm**

Ha, I had a raleigh chopper in 77.

Seeing as we're reminiscing, I had a RD250lc in 92. Throttle cable broke one day 10 miles from home. Turned the idle up to 5000 and rode it home like that. Lc gearboxes make a hell of a bang when you put them in first at 5 thou

Posted: **Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:29 am**

1977 Gus Kuhn Norton 850 Commando Barcelona Replica in Chrome Yellow. You think a Storm is uncomfortable