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02/06/11 at 13:00:46
Ive been messing around with the idea of turning my bike into a kick start. I had 67 BSA and loved the fact that i had to kick it over every time i got on her. Anyone have any experience/any idea how much it would suck?
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02/06/11 at 13:16:26
I too enjoy the old kickstart motorcycles. I have kick started 750cc twins, no problem but in those old twins each cylinder was much smaller than the one big cylinder on the S40 and only one was in its' compression cycle on each revolution.
I am no expert on the S40 but from what I have read it would be a major job to kick start it. With that one big 650cc piston in compression it would be roughly twice as hard as kicking over a sixties vintage 650 cc Triumph Bonneville (well almost, the Bonnie had higher compression).
If you make some sort of conversion I would certainly like to read about it.
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02/06/11 at 13:54:48
my old gn400 was a kick start, if you didn't do it properly it would send you over the handlebars or sprain an ankle, kick start, yeah right, lets bring back the crank start auto's.
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thespot413 wrote
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Ive been messing around with the idea of turning my bike into a kick start. I had 67 BSA and loved the fact that i had to kick it over every time i got on her. Anyone have any experience/any idea how much it would suck?
Oh yeah, there's a great mod. search back a couple of years and you might find it.
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02/06/11 at 14:30:03
Two strokes were easy to kick over,Almost like there was nothing there.I'm talking about twins and triples.
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02/06/11 at 14:53:40
My first bike, a1937 Enfield 500 single had a compression release that opened the exhaust valves to kick it over. Helped a lot but it could still give you a sore foot. It was a hand lever under the clutch lever.
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02/06/11 at 18:11:09
Just hang the kicker off the left cover over the stator and put the driven gear on the end of the crank on top of the stator nut. You should be able to go in through the inspection port in the middle of the left side cover. Hook up a push button on the handle bar that goes to the decomp relay and you should be ready to break an ankle. It should be a pretty easy job if you can find the right parts but that's what they said about building the Panama Canal. You will still need a battery to fire the ignition during starting.
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02/06/11 at 18:22:24
Ed L. wrote
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Just hang the kicker off the left cover over the stator and put the driven gear on the end of the crank on top of the stator nut. You should be able to go in through the inspection port in the middle of the left side cover. Hook up a push button on the handle bar that goes to the decomp relay and you should be ready to break an ankle. It should be a pretty easy job if you can find the right parts but that's what they said about building the Panama Canal. You will still need a battery to fire the ignition during starting.
Just switch over to a magneto ignition from a large lawnmower and you won't need a battery either!! or instead of a kick start you could make it into a pull start.. that'd be pretty cool.
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02/06/11 at 18:32:58
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02/06/11 at 18:59:35
Pull start?
I can barely run forwards, you want me to run backwards?
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02/07/11 at 09:15:09
That pull start idea is epic. I better start working out though. Maybe once the bikes back together this time around, cant have it in pieces when the warm weather hits.
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Theres no kick start add on this engine. Simply not gonna happen.
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02/07/11 at 09:39:12
If my S40 wouldn't turn over the engine I would kick it for sure.
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02/07/11 at 14:31:35
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Theres no kick start add on this engine. Simply not gonna happen.
Actually, it can happen. You start at the starter mount. A few folks have done this with EVO sportsters, they were never made to use a kick start.
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How about old school racing bump start?
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