From magnetos to neodymium
Over some years I’ve built up a database on the development of sports and racing motorcycles between the world wars. One element in the Veteran or Edwardian look is to be long and low, and within this was the early practice of locating the engine’s magneto ahead of rather than behind the hot engine cylinder. In the back of my mind I wondered about this, as the forward-mounted magneto required special measures to protect it
