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"the day I can no longer kick start a bike is the day i quit riding"
I know very few people that now have e-start bikes that aren't glad they have it.
Falcon- Are you forgetting about the kickstart return/ratchet ring system with the large steel spring? Also the idler gear? Not to mention the larger casting in the cases to hold said kickstart assembly. Take a look at how small the cases are on modern e-start bikes. I agree a kickstart bike would probably be lighter....but it would be negligible.
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I've never looked closely, but what do the e-start bikes do to prevent the engine from turning the starter motor when the engine is running? There has to be some kind of physical disconnect, right? Time to break out the exploded drawings, I guess.
For you young grasshoppers that was how cars were started at one time.
Guess who the biggest proponents of E-start are now?
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