I've been helping a friend with his Ambo project and he came across an interesting situation that I thought I might seek some input from the list.
While working on his bike he pulled the distributor cap from its mount and rested it aside. It was still attached to the spark plug leads and the leads were connected to the plugs. As he turned over the bike it started running.
What might cause this to occur? Interesting to note is that he has been having trouble with the engine where one cylinder will not fire. We were thinking that it may be carburetor related but now that I heard of this anomaly I think that his problems might be ignition related.