THE BEST OF BOTH
It’s always an interesting and tense moment when you attempt to fire up a new project after many years of slumber, and it always excites and scares me in equal measure. It was no different when I rolled the Bulsader off the bench, onto the front drive and kicked.
It fired and ran for a few seconds several times, but I struggled with the choke setting on that Chinese Mikuni for a while until I remembered not to blip the throttle. Then it ran OK and even revved gently on choke. All seemed well as it warmed up and settled into a steady choke-less idle. I loosened the big end oil feed bolt on the timing cover; oil oozed in a comforting way. Same when I loosened one of the rocker feed bolts.
Spurred on by this, I rode it up and down the road to check everything worked OK.
Engine: fine. Brakes: rubbish. Gearchange: rubbish (really stiff action and more neutrals than gears). Most other things seemed OK so I decided to
