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Back in the day when those were common, a certain shop in ChCh were notorious for doing "5 minute tuneups" on small 2 strokes.

Take it out into the back alley and rev the tits off it for a few minutes and it's done.  Timing didn't move on them but the exhaust port would carbon up when running around town. Revving would knock the carbon off the port edges - principally the top edge. Once the top edge was clean it ran a shitload better. Part of it was the oils available too. Semi synth now burns a lot cleaner.

Do say four or five of those a day, charging 1 hour minimum each and you see how the foreman was regularly charging out 12 hours plus for an 8 hour day. Owner had a posh house in Fendalton too.  That shop is long gone thankfully. But the trick lives on.

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Hey Glen. I sold it on to some young English fella in Nelson. He loves it. I just want going to use it enough and would rather have an old road legal trail bike in the future. 

Money was handy for imp project. 

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