MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING.

NOTES. Although the petrol system provides tho simplest means of lubricating a two-stroke engine, it often makes starting difficult. To ensure easy starting of an engine, employing this typo of lubrication the following method may bo used:—At tho end of a ride theengine should be kept running, with tho petrol turned off, until the supply in tho float chamber is exhausted. Jo stmt, n<ntnte tho mixture in tho tan',; hy'rockTnc tho machine for about I*o seconds, then turn on the petrol and flood tho carburettor. Rotate tho crankshaft several times, either" by means of the kick-starter or by wheeling the machine in gear with the throttle npen, thus filling the crankcase and cvliwier with fresh mixture. An easy start by normal methods is then almost a certainty. The importance of the motor-cycle trade in Great Britain is shown by the fact that in 11>2"i the British cycle and motor-cycle industry created a credit item in tho national balancesheet of £6,3:.'!), 7 70, which represents a balance of £0.850.033 in exports over £113,737 in imports.

A few years apo anyone attempting to encircle the globe on a motor-cycle would liavo been considered unduly optimistic, and no higher tribute to the reliability of modern motor-cycles can bo found than tho fact, that last year at least four round-the-world e\-|>edi-tions were organised in which motorcycles wero the means of transport.