DT50 MX

[latti33]

HI i was woundering if anyone could help me on here. I bought a DT50 MX 5m6 model which i assumed should have points but when i got home and went to try get her started it had an electronic ignition. I was woundering weather anyone knows weather thisis genuine on a 1779 model i believe it to be or if it should have points?

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I think the 1779 model had clockwork driven flintlock ignition.
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[Teflon-Mike]

1779 model?
If thats the year, I'd expect it to have a boiler & shuttle valve, rather than points!? (ie old enough to be a steam engine!)
Is that the engine / frame serial no, or is there a typo in the date?
If its a 1979 model, then it shouldn't be an MX, it should be an E, model. Pretty significant difference; E has twin shocks, MX is a mono! 1979 would be a V or W suffix registration.
I had a V-Plate 'E' model, & pretty sure it was points.
I'm not sure when they brought in the CDi ignition on the later bikes, it's likel to have been introduced when they went mono with the MX model. Pretty sure that the earliest ones in the country were on an X-suffix registration.
(So if your bike is an MX with monoshock rear suspension, and wearing an earlier number-plate, then theres something not quite cosha about it!)
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[27cows]

I think that the 79 models were still points (could be wrong - but I think it was around 82, 83 that they went over to CDI). Could be that someone has upgraded the stator - maybe fitted one from a later bike.
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