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New owner
By: the other tim Date: October 19, 2016, 4:51 am
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Hi everone, took delivery of a Militare yesterday, it's the
one that was on Car and Classic with no pictures. Originally
sold by NLM in 2006 used for a summer and then resided in a
showroom at Boroughbridge until now. Speedo is showing under
3000 kms!! and the Pirellis appear to be the originals. I've
ridden it on the farms concrete road but it would stop when the
choke was off completely. The carb is currently being cleaned,
incidentally what is the base setting for the mixture screw (air
or fuel)? Also what are the functions of the intermittent idiot
lights surrounding the speedo? some are obvious others just
light whenever it suits.
So far I'm rather smitten it reminds me of a 50's Caterpillar
crawler we use occasionally, big bangs and slow revving!!!!!
Tim
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Re: New owner
By: banquo Date: October 20, 2016, 10:37 am
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Welcome to the world of addiction to slow and simple Tim... ;D
The default setting for the mixture (fuel) screw is 1 1/4 turns
out, and it's out for richer; in for weaker
Assume you haven't confused the two screws; the big one with the
thumbscrew is the idle speed and the small flush one is the
mixture.
The idiot lights are oil pressure (red), charging (red), neutral
(orange) and lights (green). I would have expected the lights
one to be main beam only, but it's on with any lights.
If the other three all light when ignition is first switched on,
then working out what's what should be easy enough. Pulling in
the decompressor and kicking a few times should extinguish the
oil light.
Neutral switches are unreliable; mine sometimes doesn't show,
but never shows when it shouldn't.
You can't be sure of the correct positions, as they're all over
the place from bike to bike, but the correct positions are oil
top left, charging top right, lights lower left and neutral
lower right.
It's notoriously easy to get them mixed up, as the inside of the
binnacle is a mess.
Enjoy.
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