Carb BSA 441 B44 Victor Amal Mikuni alternative 30mm carburetor PWK JRC 30 900

I just took delivery of a PWK carburetor for my 1969 B44 Shooting Star. It’s an old restoration, and I used an older Amal when I assembled it back in the mid-nineties. It never idled properly because it had some slop in the slide, and every stop at a traffic light could turn into a manic fire drill of pushing the bike to the curb and kicking like I was stomping a snake to get it restarted after it quitting randomly. To avoid the embarrassment of a senior citizen jumping up and down like some kind of idiot, I’d sit at traffic lights revving the throttle like I was on the starting line at a MotoGP. It quit again last week and it occurred to me that I’d never taken a ride on the bike without having it stop at some inopportune time, so I started looking for someone to re-sleeve the Amal when I ran across your business. After an hour or two of high level ciphering I determined that I could purchase one of your carbs for less than properly rebuilding the Amal, and quickly placed an order. I’m something of an Anglophile purist, so all of this was done under the cover of darkness… no one must ever know that I’ve committed the sacrilege of putting a Chinese carb on my pure British motorbike! After an hour or so of fitment, I commenced the starting process with the new carb in place. Three kicks in and it lit up! A couple of turns of the idle adjustment and, damn, it idles! I just rode it about thirty miles and pulled into the garage only to meet my wife who said, “Wow, you went on a ride on that and I didn’t have to come get you!” In fairness to the bike and my semi-skilled efforts, that’s only happened once or twice in the twenty five years since it was restored. Here’s the bottom line: the bike reliably idles as it never has, and the jetting out of the box is pretty close to perfect (may have to go down one size on the idle jet) . I couldn’t be happier.  Thank you.