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Sounds like a lot of guys here are just about ready for hospice with all their injuries. ![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
If this thread is still about kick starting... My Norton engine does not start gently kicking it over when cold. For the most part starting the dumb old things requires a positive attitude. Man over machine thinking. That and a solid kick with enough fuel in the combustion chamber. Much easier to start warm when the oil is thin and the fuel film is higher in the intake tract. Doesn't take much of a kick with a hot motor.
I've owned a lot of kick start motorcycle (not 150 like GrandPaul, but more than 2 dozen). I have never injured myself kick starting a motorcycle. Based on advice here I apparently do it all wrong. A gentle or slow kick never worked for me on a cold motor. A warm motor a half hearted kick can sometime work.
By the way, I never leave my leg down foot on the kick start and let the kick start gear rachet when the motor fires up like one is supposed to be able to do. I get my foot off the kick start lever immediately. Also probably wrong and hard on one thing or another, but no sad injuries to report from doing it that way.
![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
If this thread is still about kick starting... My Norton engine does not start gently kicking it over when cold. For the most part starting the dumb old things requires a positive attitude. Man over machine thinking. That and a solid kick with enough fuel in the combustion chamber. Much easier to start warm when the oil is thin and the fuel film is higher in the intake tract. Doesn't take much of a kick with a hot motor.
I've owned a lot of kick start motorcycle (not 150 like GrandPaul, but more than 2 dozen). I have never injured myself kick starting a motorcycle. Based on advice here I apparently do it all wrong. A gentle or slow kick never worked for me on a cold motor. A warm motor a half hearted kick can sometime work.
By the way, I never leave my leg down foot on the kick start and let the kick start gear rachet when the motor fires up like one is supposed to be able to do. I get my foot off the kick start lever immediately. Also probably wrong and hard on one thing or another, but no sad injuries to report from doing it that way.