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Real men always use the Kickstart
The kickstart fitted to a Velocette Venom 500 is a device used to launch the unsuspecting owner/rider to the roof of the nearest shed, screaming in pain and clutching a leg!
Who remembers how shocked we all were when Honda introduced a bike without a kick starter?Was it the CB900FZ, or the CX500?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My Ariel Leader was a pig to kick start when the engine was cold - there was a small button on the top of the carb that if you depressed it would flood the carb enabling it to start first kick - trouble was you had to take the side panel cover off to access the carb a pain in the butt.Bearing in mind I was only 17 at the time my fix was to drill a small hole in the side panel so I could fix a length of welding rod through the hole fitting some rubber pipe between the end of the rod and attach it to the carb button. It took a few tries to adjust it so it worked every time including fitting a small return spring. It was a bodge but it worked - I would not do anything like that today - the naivety of youth eh!