On Mar 17, 7:16 pm, "Keith Willcocks"
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> > On Mar 15, 10:50 pm, "Keith Willcocks"
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> >> > "Keith Willcocks" <invalidaddr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> My newsreader has failed to pick up the original post in this
thread
> >> >> so
> >> >> would someone care to re-supply the missing website link so I can
see
> >> >> what it is about please.
> >> >> --
> >> >> Keith Willcocks
> >> >> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
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> >> > Hi Keith here's the origional SPAM for what it's worth.
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> >> Thanks djimbo. Now I see what everyone is on about. Personally I
> >> wouldn't trust anything that has what looks suspiciously like an old
> >> Robinson's Marmalade Jar for its main component, and isn't HHO just
H2O
> >> written differently? Brown's Gas of course is what permeated the
House
> >> of
> >> Commons every budget day from 1997 to 2007 ;o)
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> >> The only thing I can add to the conversation is that my old BSA
Bantam
> >> when
> >> I was a lad ran better and gave better fuel economy when it was
raining
> >> but
> >> that was solely the moisture in the air affecting the mixture. I
> >> suppose a
> >> bit like the water injection that I seem to remember hearing of.
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> >> Keith Willcocks
> >> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
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> > BSA Bantam - now that takes me back. My only experience with water as
> > a fuel was when my old Ford 2000 diesel tractor was hard to start and
> > produced m***** of smoke. Turned out the tank had built up a high
> > water content from decades of condensation. Drain the fuel, flush
> > everything out, replace the fuel filter, no problem.
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> > I vaguely remember, 50 - 60 years ago, seeing ads in Popular Mechanics
> > for water injection (and also other weird petrol-saving gadgets). Or
> > was it Popular Science? Ah the memories - all sparked by Keith
> > mentioning the Bantam (I never owned one - I had a bike called a Sun,
> > with a Villiers engine. But the Bantams looked and sounded better.
> > And, like many motor bike users, one day I suddenly found myself on my
> > back in the traffic as my bike disappeared under the car which bumped
> > me.
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> Which is exactly how my Bantam (1949 or 50 125cc model I think with no
rear
> suspension, but large springs under the rear edge of the saddle, and a
bulb
> horn) ended its days in 1962. The frame got cracked and I couldn't
get it
> repaired. I had one scary experience. It stalled at the traffic
lights,
> so I quickly kicked down and started the engine again. The lights went
> green and I pulled smoothly away - backwards. The firing point was
very
> close to top dead centre and the two stroke engine in Bantams would
happily
> run in reverse if it happened to kick back when you kick started it.
> --
> Keith Willcocks
> (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)
Until my near-terminal experience with my Sun, the only event was when
I stopped for a line of traffic 9frosty weather), went into a skid,
and had the sense to keep skidding past the stationary vehicles,
rather than collapsing in a rapidly moving heap.
But I can't top your story - a reversing motor bike!
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