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Like waving a wand…

As many of you will recall, years ago if we were fussy about how our bikes fuelled themselves, how they responded to throttle inputs, we learned about pilot jets, needles and main jets.

We learned about float levels and slide cutaways, aware that those items or values interconnectedly and a bit mysteriously dictated our engines’ behaviour.

As you may also recall, I recently bought a Moto Guzzi V7, a smallish 750 transverse V-twin. I discovered early on that it fuelled itself appallingly, infuriatingly. But there were

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