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I took the bike out for a shakedown ride this morning - only managed about 65 miles as it was very chilly out, and I was a bit underdressed for the occasion. However, I did discover that the bike ran great and had no issues. Plenty of power, rock-solid idle, no oil leaks, all good. The only thing I ...

All seems okay now - the timing was in fact slightly advanced, so it's been adjusted and tightened down. We went a step further and installed two collars over the retaining screws for the points/ignition cover that press against the Charlie's Place plate, plus John added some gasket material around ...

I finally got the bike back and it's running like a charm. My mechanic mentioned that compression in the cylinders is 185 (left) and 190 (right). I read online that the way to calculate compression ratio is to divide the psi by the atmospheric pressure (14.7). Is that correct? If so, looks like I ha...

The issue might be more with that single screw which is used to hold the plate down. With the points and even with the Probe electronic ignition, it uses two Phillips screws to hold the plate down; with the Charlie's ignition it only uses one. It appears to me that if that screw allows the assembly ...

Does anyone here have the Charlie's Place electronic ignition? Reason I ask is that we discovered a little problem. It seems the ignition unit moved, or at least the left magnet seems to have moved. Everything is tight - all screws etc, but the left magnet is the equivalent of a Post-It Note folded ...

Here's one more thing to lose sleep over: If you take your cylinder to a typical automotive machine shop for boring, they're going to register their boring tool off the existing bore. If the cylinder bore is not perpendicular to the cylinder base, the new bore will be crooked also. A machine shop t...

I heard back from Bill Silver regarding the 'high-output' vs 'low-output' rotors: They were overcharging at about 2.5 amps so they reduced it to about 1.0 amp. He also confirmed the 12.8 volts that I was getting from my stock system and said that if you put in a regulator-rectifier they can reach 13...