I'm form the inbreed south but even we get some winters so smarts enough to have indoor hobbies that don't add mouths to feed, witness my current avatar which I'm rubbing a bit more polish on the Drouin belt cover right now as I type with the other foot in a stocking on carpet as rain/ice/snow front sounds change in waves but not cold enough to touch off the 200 lb wood in fire place so propane spritz's more cost effective and mile and miles away from anything but natural sounds so undisturbed trip plotting and planning and producing this and that on Dixieland dream machine that will play the Souths theme song as well as La Coucarocha and has on occasion started right up at dead slow idle instant boyah power key'd on. On the other hand poor Trixie with kicker ratchet or something swinging free with a slight grind noise not clicking like other ratchet failures and dog down SuVee with bent bars and crushed shift lever and spoiled tank and fairing paint are in unheated garage I only glance at while passing through quick as I can feeling a bit guilty and neglectful as I prior starred at them before Ms Peel got to looking like i could ride her and sort of did recently to fine tune final two part shift lever but so peace full couldn't start her up in my mind so no vocal noise of ripping fabric of space on each shift tire hook up hesitation... A good ole plain Jane factory Combat is hand start able which sounds impressive till ya realize Cream of the Crop Combats have the least CR to kick over d/t the 2S cam delayed intake closure. So just step on starts is the normal and gives me the brass to routine get a rise out of crowds of onlooking big Vtwin groups, Hey ya know what us British Iron Ridders say [rather loudly too...] Thumb Commensors Are know to , then I step on Trixie for her dead idle turn on and then a nice peashooter sNORT... Lowering One's IQ and leave - short shifting softly slowly just short of lugging all ears on the famed Norton noise, sounding pleasant but too big for its size, working up easy as pie to 4th till just around out of sight snick back to 2nd and come back 5+000 rpm & rising quickly into torque peak Roar so no mistake about it being a sports bike antique sleeper. Oh yeah don't get too jerky on throttle doing the 90' road entry from parking lot or also gives a crossed up flat tracker show if ya catch it in time. Poor ole Combats with famous 2S lack of low end off idle torque response...
