Racing dirt bikes such as the Honda XR650R have a manual compression-release lever mounted on top of clutch lever. Very clever. Has anyone tried to fit one of these, or something like it, on a Savage or Ryca? One problem is that most dirt bikes have 7/8" bars while our's is 1".
Dave

Id want a bar mounted decomp If I had a kick start. The simplest, most elegant decomp Ive seen was a simple lever on the head. Cant remember who has it,,
The decomp is only needed for a split second, to make sure the starter can get the engines mass swingin so it could push thru compression & not overload the starter & its gears. If the piston is down & going into the exhaust stroke, the decomp isnt even needed,, but, its there, just in case its coming up on compression,

You dont, you flip the lever to trap an exhaust valve partially open & when the cam opens the exhaust valves fully open it flops back,

Don't Savage's have an Auto-Decompression cable?  I remember seeing something resembling it in the 86-88 book...