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brrm ([personal profile] brrm) wrote2007-05-12 10:49 pm
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Watch and learn, as Art fails to start his new $shiny first go [MPEG-1, 6.9MB]. I will stop boring you all with stuff pertaining to shiny-new-bike soon, promise.

Well, maybe.

[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com 2007-05-12 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Shiny! But is it really that noisy?

[identity profile] brrm.livejournal.com 2007-05-12 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, how loud do you have your speakers turned up? ;-)
I'd call it quiet on a relative scale of bike noisiness - it's certainly quieter than a sports bike with a dodgy illegal silencer, or a Harley Davidson, for example.

[identity profile] met24.livejournal.com 2007-05-13 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I was getting back into the swing (ho ho) of starting Tiger Moths yesterday. I got one to start on the second blade, which I was quite pleased with.

What's the igniton system, electronic or (dare I say it) magnetos? The Tiger's engine (and pretty well every magneto-ignited aero piston engine, which means most aero piston engines) has an impulse coupling to retard the spark and give it a bit more welly -- does the bike have anything similar?