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Re: Kick-Start mod???????
Reply #15 - 05/21/10 at 15:09:54

Here's where i was going with this......

I am an automotive tech, don't do much fab stuff on bikes or whatever, but there are 2 techs in the next shop over. one has a 72 CB750 and the other has a 74 CB550, both of which have kick starts. Both of which start on the first kick every time.

I was thinking about how nice it would be (whether its more work or not) to be able to kick your bike to life, when your battery cant.

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #16 - 05/21/10 at 15:25:23 Those 2 bikes are fours they kick over 4 times easier than a Single.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #17 - 05/22/10 at 00:32:35 Yup, with 4cyl you only fight compression of one small cylinder at the time, and if it picks up - it helps you with others. On the other hand - there's 1.2 and 1.6 liter Harleys on youtube with kickstarts... That's 600 or 800cc per cylinder. And it works.
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PipJones Full Member Offline Posts: 146 Fort Worth, Tx Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #18 - 05/22/10 at 06:41:30 can a 1200 sporster motor and tranny FIT in the savage frame without any extensive mounting fabro??? Just curious.... Might be fun.
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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #19 - 05/22/10 at 06:45:39 PipJones wrote on 05/22/10 at 06:41:30: can a 1200 sporster motor and tranny FIT in the savage frame without any extensive mounting fabro??? Just curious.... Might be fun. If you've got the Time, Money & Abilities, anything can be done I don't think I have any of the 3, so I'm not going to try it anytime soon
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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #20 - 05/22/10 at 10:20:39 KLX650 C models are electric start, R models are kick start. Both can be done on either. Clive W
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Re: Kick-Start mod???????
Reply #21 - 05/22/10 at 10:57:15

PipJones wrote on 05/21/10 at 15:09:54:

Here's where i was going with this......
I was thinking about how nice it would be (whether its more work or not) to be able to kick your bike to life, when your battery cant.

...but, as Paladin said earlier,...
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The LS650 uses a CDI ignition and if the battery is not working the electric starter then the kicker is not kicking the ignition so you can kick all you want you want but it is not living fire.

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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #22 - 05/22/10 at 11:53:05 I beg to differ!! Why have we discussed push-start about 500 times so far?? If push start works - kick start would too.
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Reply #23 - 05/22/10 at 12:39:39

Good point.. I guess it would work with a low battery, but not a dead one?... Huh

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..but for that emergency, we already have the push start...

Kicks do look cool though... Wink

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Here's an idea!... Just fake it...
Put your leg up,... hit the start button, and kick downward through the air,... and people will think you kicked it over... Grin

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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12671 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #24 - 05/22/10 at 13:26:49 Depends on voltage in system. Push or kick would not drain the voltage away to nothing, while the starter certainly would.
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Re: Kick-Start mod???????
Reply #25 - 05/22/10 at 14:01:00

Serowbot wrote on 05/22/10 at 12:39:39:

Good point.. I guess it would work with a low battery, but not a dead one?... Huh

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..but for that emergency, we already have the push start...

Kicks do look cool though... Wink

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Here's an idea!... Just fake it...
Put your leg up,... hit the start button, and kick downward through the air,... and people will think you kicked it over... Grin

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Just be careful not to fall over the bike when you do that Grin

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Re: Kick-Start mod???????
Reply #27 - 05/23/10 at 05:12:12

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KLX650 C models are electric start, R models are kick start. Both can be done on either.
Clive W

There's another idea, motorswap with a motor and tranny that already have a kickstart, dirt bikes and enduros with bigger displacement engines... or 2 strokers(if they don't check emissions where your at).. A dirtbike engine should have no problem fitting inside the confines of the frame..

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Re: Kick-Start mod???????
Reply #28 - 05/25/10 at 07:20:04

PipJones wrote on 05/22/10 at 06:41:30:

can a 1200 sporster motor and tranny FIT in the savage frame without any extensive mounting fabro???

Just curious.... Might be fun.

Stretch the frame in three directions and it will fot just fine, or just get a cheap sporty, take the front end, wheels, fenders, ect. off of your 325lb. savage and put them on the 500+ lb. sportster and hope it holds together

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PipJones Full Member Offline Posts: 146 Fort Worth, Tx Gender:	Re: Kick-Start mod??????? Reply #29 - 05/25/10 at 07:23:13 sounds like a GREAT idea!!!!! I'll have to try that sometime...... (not really)
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