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.... It started on about the 3rd kick...

I  rebuilt a [gasp] Jawa at one stage.
All together, ready to go.
Jawas had a combined foot gearshift lever and kick starter - push the gear
lever in, turn at 90 degrees uipwards and lo and behold, a kickstarter
lever.
So ...

Prime carburettor.
Kick once.
Engine fires.
Kick starter flicks downwards - it may just have been spring return but
probably caught a flick from the engine firing which should have been
isolated by an overrun ratchet.

But, lever flicked downwards into gearshift mode and continued down to
place bike in 1st gear.
Bike is on centre stand, single sheet of newspaper on floor under back
wheel.
Engine fires Jawa like with heavy flywheels ... dung dung dung dung ...
stalls.
Rear knobby tyre.
Paper is fed backwards by turning back wheel  - isolated from floor
friction by paper bike stays on stand BUT tyre to floor pressure completely
removes paper under each knobby tyre knob.
There on the floor behind the bike is the paper sheet with a perfect knobby
tyre patterm cut into it as if done with a knife or scissors - not ripped
at all - just friction removed.

We tried time and again to replicate the feat but it never cooperated.
Kept the paper as a unique work of art but somewhere over the long years it
slipped away.
Shame.



            Russell
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