Felling dead and dying English elms full of bark beetles and then having to try peel the butts and burn wet elm bark in the heat! Mountains of tyres and sump oil to get it going and huge bonfires to try and get rid of the beetles, so that they wouldn't fly to non-infected trees.

Then over to the Isle of Man, a different world. Warm, but no blistering heat, rain and altogether a much better climate, swimming off Peel beach and the MGP, with the Manx 2 Day Trial. Following the latter on the Ducati 450, with clip-ons and the Ford Escort ignition set-up, on full advance!  Must of been bonkers!  Still am! 

Good health, Bill 

Not this time!

I couldn't give a jot, but there will be a lot of deflated ijiots, guffing a load of old tripe for weeks about ..... YAWN!

Love the image.

Good health, Bill

My SRX would stop every so often changed the ECU and it was fine after. Also have you checked the choke isn't stuck on

Someone has a SOH

Those pickup and exciter coil readings:
Exciter coil cold: 208? 65V AC Hot: 220? 70V AC
Pickup- cold: 466? up to  250mv ac  Hot: 483?  120 to 200mv ac
The pickup voltage readings fluctuated quite a lot both hot and cold.  Not sure if that is indicative of any problem.
I fitted a spare cdi last night so will start it up later this morning and see if it behaves itself.  Next thing to try is another carburettor although I have cleaned this one very thoroughly and can't see any problems with it.  I do have the fuel shut off valve  and the vacuum take off blocked off although I can't see why that would start to cause problems now.
If all those fail, I will summon up the courage to take the spark plug out although I'm sure it will break off.  Then I will have to have the head off and can sort out that cam chain that's been rattling for the past 60,000 miles.  Problem is that I will probably find the barrel and piston are completely worn out and will have to decide how far to go.
What joy.  The pleasures of a high milage bike.
Thanks again.
Richard.