A whole lot of us grew up around bikes and every one of us had to either kick or bump start them. My first was a used Honda 50 when I was 8 that my buddy and I bought with our summers lawn cutting money.
Many here have kicked over a wide variety of bikes ever since and IMHO one of the best offerings to ever come along is the E start.
In college for two winters all I had for transport was a 650 Lightning and kicking that over when it was 18 degrees was a way to warm up without the engine ever firing.
My joints have done their job.
I see no need to continue to tax them when progressive technology and more forgiving options, like electric starter for a motorcycle, are available. Nothing like sitting on an uphill incline in heavy traffic wearing jeans and a LS shirt and a helmet and suddenly having to re-start the damn thing because it vapor locked from sitting at a long stop light in the 90 degree summer heat.
One learns a lot of new names offered by other drivers maneuvering around you with a specific gesture stuck out the window.
I knew right away I wanted an E start for my 74 780 and I have that bike tweaked to fire on first kick on the down side of the compression stroke.
Then I found out about cNw's E start kit.
I never looked back and am glad of it.
ILLf8ed made an interesting point.
Ask someone with an ATV or UTV if they are using the kick or pull start. "Only when the battery is dead".
My dad had a 54' MD TD that used to require crank starting. Gawd' did that suck.
I bought a car with a starter.
