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[Craig]

Right A Little Story: Three Years ago I left My Std 350 98 (Home Mkt) Model in the garden (Using My AVL daily instead) ,Thinking It would Not be long I Squirted some WD 40 in the Carb & Put a Table spoon full of 2Stk oil in the Tank..Covered it in An old Bin Bag and....Zoom forward to Now..So this Morning I Drained the Old Fuel Cleaned the Spark Plug and re charged the Battery and She Started and Ran on her 2nd Kick & tick's over Nice.............Battery is a 5 tear Old RS Sealed one and Still Holds Charge..Old Petrol Look;s Fine with No Viz Water,Emulsion Ethinol etc...Tank Seems Fine Bit of Debris/Rust No Gunk or Hole's.Clutch Not Stuck or Sticking At all?.....Front Brake is Sticking And One Indi Bulb gone..Other wise All Seems OK..(But I will Oil & Filter Change afore Use) Last Note She is Still Running on the Original (Touch Wood) Points she left the factory On and Now has 35000 Miles on the Clock... "A Simple design Still working"....Cheers All Craig

[Exile]

Nice little story. Now, give it a lot of love and some use...

[Craig]

Hi Exile..I posted to show that on the Whole (Well all Mine have Been) Relatively reliable and easy to work on compared to all Other makes OF bike I have owned..And Mine Live out side in the rain & snow etc..Yet Some which are Cosited in a Warm Garage & have every luxury etc seem to be most trouble ;0) enjoy.. "But Yes Regular use is the best Tonic",,,Cheers All

[Dennis C]

Craig a lot of the problems with these bikes appear to be caused by the owners. Also any forum like this will
Attract the same owners to help with the self imposed problems. Ducks and runs for cover.

[papasmurf]

Dennis, my wife and I get a lot of strange looks before we leave motorcycle rallies as both bikes, (one solo, and one sidecar) get a full "pre-flight" check and engine warm up before we leave. (I even have a small 12volt compressor with an Optimate plug adaptor so I can check the tyre pressures.
The difference between most of the attendees and me, is I have 250-300 miles to get back home, they don't.

[Dennis C]

Papasmurf that just proves my point the basic design of these bikes is good properly looked after they will take you wherever you want to go. Fiddle with things you don't understand and you have trouble, some think that just because they are a simple design they can alter and adjust with impunit, you can't they protest and bite back.

[Beezabryan]

I thank you alll for the thoughtful positivty and especially to Craig for starting one of the nicest threads for some time

[Dennis C]

Hi
Bryan not spoken to you directly for a long time, I hope you
are keeping well. Yes it would be great if all threads were more positive and pleasant unfortunately
There are always the trolls and argumentative ones to be found.

[papasmurf]

Dennis C, my comments were about all bikes not just Enfield's.

[Beezabryan]

Hi Dennis, now the belly gashes are nearly healed and I'm more mobile I expect to be out rather more than of late. In fact the very first real outing (subject to the result of the first trial drive later today) will be this weekend at the BSAOC National Rally at Market Harborough. Then there is the MadMike thing sometime soon I think
Positivity work for me