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Default GM loses big-time

hk wrote in news:gd-
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and their bikes sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.


Triumphs had a special thermometer in them built into the distributor cap.
At a certain temperature, the thermo element must have pulled the points
permanently away from each other because you couldn't start it in the
cold....