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I do seem to remember back in the very early 70'sa mate being very cool in front of the local girlshaving his bike on the side stand and while putting on his helmet he hitthe starter button and it lurched forward and fell on it's side, OOps!red face and he didn't pull
Chances are your K1 has a later switchgear fitted by a previous owner, as I seem to recall they started fitting the "Safety circuit" from K3 onwards.