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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #15 - 02/08/11 at 12:38:01 This question seems to appear every year about this time. As far as I know many have asked about it but none have actually got up the gumption to actually try it.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: kick start Reply #16 - 02/09/11 at 14:19:45 weren't old harely panheads and such kickstarted? That's like 600cc per cylinder, right? No decomp either. Must be a way...
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Reply #17 - 02/10/11 at 11:34:09

dasch wrote on 02/09/11 at 14:19:45:

weren't old harely panheads and such kickstarted? That's like 600cc per cylinder, right? No decomp either. Must be a way...

Yea, I think youre right. Seems ta me Ive heard stories of backfires & people being launched & bones broken. The Kawa W650 has a kickstart. Easy as pie once its warmed up. I dont think I's even use one on the 650 Savage, unless the battery was too weak to crank & fire it.

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Reply #18 - 02/10/11 at 14:06:37

dasch wrote on 02/09/11 at 14:19:45:

weren't old harely panheads and such kickstarted? That's like 600cc per cylinder, right? No decomp either. Must be a way...

Not so much as with older Sportsters. You have compression releases on the big twins, and you are also kicking the through the trans which increases the effort. My 75 XLCH has 225 psi cold in the cylinders, I weigh 195-200 lbs. I can stand on the extended kicker and it will hold me up. I have to do the hop and drop.....look up 'Sportser Knee' and you'll see. It was very common to hurt on an XL with a magneto that wasn't set right! Not so much throwing you anywhere, just darn near breaking your leg.....

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: kick start Reply #19 - 02/10/11 at 16:17:18 After 5+years of riding the Savage, I have yet to sprain my thumb starting it.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #20 - 02/10/11 at 18:57:40 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/10/11 at 16:17:18: After 5+years of riding the Savage, I have yet to sprain my thumb starting it.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #21 - 02/10/11 at 20:17:47 bill67 wrote on 02/10/11 at 18:57:40: justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/10/11 at 16:17:18: After 5+years of riding the Savage, I have yet to sprain my thumb starting it. pssst. bill... the other thumb.
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Chopped Senior Member Offline Hurts Like hell when you shoot yourself! Posts: 499 Stafford, VA Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #22 - 03/18/11 at 11:19:39 So I just added a new thread about this... I should have done the due diligence and researched... I am not finding anyone really having some success at it though. Has anyone figured it out? If not... I know what my project is for the summer while I ride my Ironhead around!
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grungeant YaBB Newbies Offline 2007 Suzuki S40 Posts: 49 South Jersey Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #23 - 08/20/12 at 00:24:46 So has anyone figured out how to do this yet?
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Re: kick start
Reply #24 - 08/20/12 at 01:24:54

I still remember kick starting a Ducati 450 when I was young like you.

I giggled with joy when I electric started my Savage for the first time.

Pock --- crank,crank, vroooom burble burble burble burble burble .....

Good luck boys, the big single is so big it isn't even very easy to bump start it with two people pushing it in second gear.

Kicking it on a cold morning -- no thank you.

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #25 - 08/20/12 at 04:35:30 The closest to kick starting my LS650 I would want to get is hitting the button with my foot........
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Reply #26 - 08/20/12 at 07:15:04

We owned a 1981 Honda Twinstar for over twenty years. It had both electric and kick starters. Aside from early on when I tried the kickstarter just to see if it worked, I doubt I kickstarted it more than half a dozen times. And on that bike, the kickstart could be done literally by hand. Why would one want to replace a perfectly good electric starter with a Kick-A-Matic? Just to prove it can be done? "Here - hold my beer and watch this."

If you really want a motorcycle with a kick starter, visit your friendly local Royal Enfield dealer. The line of Royal Enfields, all single-cylinder 500s, comes equipped with both electric and kick starters. It's a heck of a lot easier just to buy a bike with a kick starter than to try to jury-rig one onto a bike never engineered to have one.

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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #27 - 08/20/12 at 07:59:21 Hold on, what am I missing ?? Isn't the object to get the engine started ?? So if I had a bike w/ both ES & KS, wouldn't fear and common sense tell me which to use ??
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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #28 - 08/20/12 at 08:55:39 Wouldn't you "fear" being stuck with a dead-battery and having to be forced to bump-start it instead of just popping out a lever and kick-starting it? That's like asking why banks have generators.
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: kick start Reply #29 - 08/20/12 at 09:31:45 Why would I "fear" being stuck with a motorcycle and a dead battery any more than I'd "fear" being stuck with a car and a dead battery?
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