Interesting Occurance the HT bicycle engine that wouldn't quit

[Skyliner70]

After a somewhat troublesome 5 hour ride in the Colorado mountains by Tin Cup, Colorado I finally got back to my campsite and discovered my engine kill switch didn't work.

No problem, I thought, I'll just pull the spark plug wire from the plug. Guess what? It kept running even though plug cable was pulled and powerpole connectors form magneto were disconnected. I killed engine by engaging the choke on the carb.

I'm thinking the combinatin of a high compression head, hot engine, hot spark plug, caused my engine to run like a a diesel.

Anybody else have this happen to them?

 

[chubaka]

Re: Interesting Occurance the HT engine that wouldn't quit

My old engine did that once. My brother started iyt, it went to redline and he pulled the boot. Ran for 3-5 seconds.

 

[Drewd]

Re: Interesting Occurance the HT engine that wouldn't quit

Mine ran for more than 3-5 seconds ;-) Worst part of it was the fact that as i was holding the spark plug cable away from the plug, I kept getting zapped.