alton electric start

Jeandr · Apr 22, 2013

bwolfie said:
I also did a hand start on my Combat, pre restoration. If all is setup well, starting is a simple task.

With your left hand :!: that is impressive

Jean

Diablouph · Apr 22, 2013

Jeandr said:
bwolfie said:

I also did a hand start on my Combat, pre restoration. If all is setup well, starting is a simple task.

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With your left hand :!: that is impressive

Jean

I agree

Now let's see you do it with a stone cold engine.

bwolfie · Apr 22, 2013

I'll make a new video cold starting AFTER I get my new carbs and dial it all in.
I'm still fiddling with the bike, best so far is 3rd kick.
But I'm questioning the original carbs, and I know the timing is off.

Diablouph · Apr 22, 2013

bwolfie said:
I'll make a new video cold starting AFTER I get my new carbs and dial it all in.
I'm still fiddling with the bike, best so far is 3rd kick.
But I'm questioning the original carbs, and I know the timing is off.

Excellent. So the jury will be out, and I assume, so will the barbells.

Scooter boy · May 10, 2013

I'm putting an e- start on my 74-850, just rebuilt her .10 over at 7.5:1 comp. Which unit is the best/ worst? I like the Alton , but the Norvil big brush looks better. Have bad knees or I wouldn't do it at all. Since I got ot new,my dealer told me to remove the choke slides from both carbs,( your flooding it with the tickle anyway ) and it's always been a 1-2 kicker since new. Anyone got a new one? My English bud told me the trannys were HD, he took his back four times,and I don't think he ever got it sorted. Tomaselli,Dunstall,stick with the known Norton bits and you can't go wrong.

74-850 Norton
2001 Ducati st2
1999 1100 Kawasaki ZRX Lawson Replica
1980 GS 1100 Suzuki

L.A.B. · May 10, 2013

Scooter boy said:
I'm putting an e- start on my 74-850, just rebuilt her .10 over at 7.5:1 comp. Which unit is the best/ worst? I like the Alton , but the Norvil big brush looks better.

The Norvil starter (dynodave starter) is an upgrade for the 1975 850 MkIII electric start model, it isn't a kit to convert a pre-electric start model to electric starting as the Alton kit is.

Scooter boy said:
My English bud told me the trannys were HD,

? :?

gripper · May 10, 2013

I work with a girl who has a street triple and is, according to her, the fastest thing in the county. I offered her a go on the Commando provided she could start it. She won't come near it funny old thing. It takes a special kind of woman.

gtsun · Jul 21, 2013

I was on a ride in Norther California a few years ago, at a gas station burger joint some young modern bike guys were realy impresed that I kick started a bike when I moved it to go eat & I felt that cool old bike pride thing too Brad.. Then a girl about 50 years old & about 100 lbs road in on a very old Harley chopper about twenty feet long, got gas and then stood on the kick start, blasted that big twin to life and road off into the green hills! I didn't feel so tough anymore..

swooshdave · Jul 21, 2013

L.A.B. said:
Scooter boy said:

My English bud told me the trannys were HD,

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? :?

The 952 Prototype tranny was HD (Baker I believe), at least the internals. Don't know where Stuart is sourcing them from.

lcrken · Jul 21, 2013

swooshdave said:
The 952 Prototype tranny was HD (Baker I believe), at least the internals. Don't know where Stuart is sourcing them from.

You believe correctly. Kenny did use the Baker gearset in a custom shell made by his go-to machine shop guy. Pictures of gearset and shell below.

Ken

andychain · Jul 22, 2013

There is one made by a French company, the kit looks good but the chain appears to wear quite
quickly. I was talking to them at Stafford and have given them a chain for test that should cure the problem.

Andy

rotorwrinch · Jul 22, 2013

Ken,
Do you have the prototype gearbox shell ? If so, we need to talk.
Rj

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