Kickstart

Hi guys, I hav a 79 kz1000 and have a few questions. How fdo you go about using the kicker? Is there some special trick? Mine doesn't seem to want to start. Also you can start w/ kicker even w/ a bad battery right.

if you hold the clutch in (at least on my 650) the kicker wont engage, has to be in neutral with the clutch released
the coils need some power to fire. if the battery is completly dead, it probly wont start, but if theres enough to make sparks, just not enough for the electric starter to turn the motor over fast enough, the kick start should get it going

Said all that I was gonna say!

i cant kickstart any of my bikes while im sitting on them,i have to stand beside bike on left side and use kickstart:P

wireman wrote:

i cant kickstart any of my bikes while im sitting on them,i have to stand beside bike on left side and use kickstart:P

thats what you get for running big bore high comp. pistons:laugh:

77KZ650 wrote:

wireman wrote:

i cant kickstart any of my bikes while im sitting on them,i have to stand beside bike on left side and use kickstart:P

thats what you get for running big bore high comp. pistons:laugh:

guilty as charged!

wireman wrote:

i cant kickstart any of my bikes while im sitting on them,i have to stand beside bike on left side and use kickstart:P

Left side? Evokes fond memories of my long since dearly departed Zundapp Super Sabre.

Patton wrote:

wireman wrote:

i cant kickstart any of my bikes while im sitting on them,i have to stand beside bike on left side and use kickstart:P

Left side? Evokes fond memories of my long since dearly departed Zundapp Super Sabre.

left side:S i was thinking about my left side standing next to right side of bike!:woohoo: oopsies!

Oh yeah, now I think I get it, and believe most everybody kick starts like that (right side of bike, standing on left foot and kicking with right). Best to impress the ladies with kick start from astride the bike (right foot of course -- always the right foot -- would rather use my right hand than spaz out trying the left foot).

nope i use the left foot to kickstart while standing on right foot on right side of bike;) nurse!

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wireman wrote:

nope i use the left foot to kickstart while standing on right foot on right side of bike;) nurse!

Thanks for clearing that up. Must be a true lefty.

No way I could do that. Us true righties are helpless with either left extremity.