CG125 - fired up!

Just a quick post - no photo yet. I tried to start the CG125 today but it didn't seem to want to fire. The bike had a strong spark at the HT lead and seemed to have a good spark at plug. Fuel was also there. The timing seemed to be out though as it backfired once or twice. When I checked the timing I couldn't understand why I wasn't able to get the points anywhere near opening when the timing marks lined up. They would only line up when the rockers were pushing on the valves - i.e no compression. After a bit of head scratching I realised that under the flywheel magneto assembly there is an advance retard system which had been put on the wrong way round, which meant the timing was 180 degrees out. It could never have fired up properly, this was possibly why the engine was not in use when I bought it. I'll post a photo of the advance retard system when I take the flywheel off again to give it a good clean.  After putting the advance retard system in correctly and sticking in a spark plug from the CD90Z (the CG125 one didn't seem to be allowing a strong enough spark to run), the bike fired up and ran. It now needs the proper plug fitting and timing and valves fine tuned.  To get a video of it running it also needs an exhaust! Still lots of bits missing but it is very encouraging to have the engine going.