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"he’d spin the back wheel by hand to start it up."I regularly started my Manx this way in the workshop. I put the ease down to considerable valve overlap. Jam a pencil in the twistgrip to give a small throttle opening, and let her rip.A four step push start would probably work, I always used six, and by four steps I would hear the opposition making plonking sounds behind me. I'd ignore this and at six I'd drop the clutch and get aboard side saddle. It never failed to start. There was no power to speak of below 5,000 so I'd hold the throttle full open and control the revs with the clutch, keeping the needle on 8,000. Front wheel in the air, and when it started to come down get the leg over and into second gear.A well-known member of an officially frowned on motorcycle club here in New South Wales rode a Manx on the road in the early 1970s. The story is that he would stick a handkerchief in the carburettor bellmouth to keep the rain out when parked, and one night he came out of the pub and forgot to remove the handkerchief before he started it. Had to lift the head to get his handkerchief back.
"he’d spin the back wheel by hand to start it up."
I regularly started my Manx this way in the workshop. I put the ease down to considerable valve overlap. Jam a pencil in the twistgrip to give a small throttle opening, and let her rip.
A four step push start would probably work, I always used six, and by four steps I would hear the opposition making plonking sounds behind me. I'd ignore this and at six I'd drop the clutch and get aboard side saddle. It never failed to start. There was no power to speak of below 5,000 so I'd hold the throttle full open and control the revs with the clutch, keeping the needle on 8,000. Front wheel in the air, and when it started to come down get the leg over and into second gear.
A well-known member of an officially frowned on motorcycle club here in New South Wales rode a Manx on the road in the early 1970s. The story is that he would stick a handkerchief in the carburettor bellmouth to keep the rain out when parked, and one night he came out of the pub and forgot to remove the handkerchief before he started it. Had to lift the head to get his handkerchief back.
