It's Dead!

3:30pm Take the bike for a spin

4:00pm Bike dies, refuses to restart

4:30pm Give up trying to restart it, call the RAC

5:10pm RAC attend. They can't start it either, so call for recovery, ETA 6:20pm

6:10pm RAC report ETA now 7:50pm

7:30pm RAC report ETA now 8:20pm

8:25pm Recovery arrive

9:15pm Home

9:16pm Beer

I only wanted a quick shakedown run in the sunshine yesterday :-( Bike was running fine until I took it up to WOT, and it felt like fuel starvation just before it died, so thought maybe the float height needs tweaking. Pulled over, tickled the carb, no bueno. Great time to NOT have more than a Leatherman on me - d'oh! Sparkplug was sooty (I think I need to go down a size on the main jet) so that was cleaned as best as I could and retried - still no go. Checked to see if the previous timing work had slipped at all, nope, that was in the same place I'd put it.

When the RAC arrived he checked the same things I'd already looked at, but gave the sparkplug a better clean, checked the gap, and heated it with a blowtorch before putting it back in. Still no go, so he orders a flatbed for a recovery.

4 sodding hours later, I'm home. Could have pushed it home in half that time.

I have compression, a spark and fuel comes out of the tickler. Current guess is a blocked jet, or the magnetic rotor has come loose and shifted. We'll see.