Picture: REB points and condenser at 10,267 miles
The REB coughed a couple of times on the lunch ride last Wednesday, something that hadn't happened since I was sorting out the jetting. I figured it was time for a general tune up so I got to it. At ten thousand plus miles the points had never been changed and the timing hadn't been adjusted in months. The points gap checked out OK at .015 but they were a little pitted so I changed them out along with the condenser and reset the timing. See the little black marks at 11 o'clock on the backing plate? That was the old timing mark and surprise, surprise it was still spot on when I static timed it at .8mm btdc. I replaced the plug and it fired up with the first kick.
Time for a test ride.........I brought along my newest toy, a Megellan Explorist 300 GPS. My friend, Pat had recently acquired one and it looked pretty slick. I wasn't going far enough to get lost but want to check the notoriously wrong speedo on the REB. As I expected the REB showed about proved to be about 4 mph optimistic. I managed to get it up to a GPS 65 mph it flattened out. I have long suspected that the 18 tooth front sprocket might be a little tall for my bulk but it is such a PITA to change I haven't bothered.
Oh yeah, the bike ran great but as I pulled into the housing area it coughed. Probably could have ran those points another 10k. I fiddled with the idle jet so we will see what happens on the next ride.
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