Kick starting
I bought a 1982 fxwg It has both electric and kick start. starts pretty good with electric start. Today I thought I would kick it over you know to impress the old lady. Didn't work out like i had hope. either I don't know what I'm doing or something is broken. I turn the switch on, two twist of throttle, bike in Neutral. push pedal and felt no resistant. I thought maybe It should be in gear. try that with clutch lever squeeze and The bike moved forward as I push on the kicker. Didn't think that was right. figure I leave it alone for now till someone can tell me how to do it. Please help this dummy kick start his Harley. Thanks in advance..
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You might want to kneel with your left leg on your seat and let your right leg 'push' it through. If it does kick, it will only push your right, still slightly bent leg up w/o tossing you off the bike or causing you a painful limp for a few days!
The only bike I had to ever really 'stand on' was a 93" S&S panhead we built back in the day. Stock well tuned shovels are pretty easy.
When you get good at it, you'll kick it anyway YOU want!
The only bike I had to ever really 'stand on' was a 93" S&S panhead we built back in the day. Stock well tuned shovels are pretty easy.
When you get good at it, you'll kick it anyway YOU want!
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
You might want to kneel with your left leg on your seat and let your right leg 'push' it through. If it does kick, it will only push your right, still slightly bent leg up w/o tossing you off the bike or causing you a painful limp for a few days!
The only bike I had to ever really 'stand on' was a 93" S&S panhead we built back in the day. Stock well tuned shovels are pretty easy.
When you get good at it, you'll kick it anyway YOU want!
The only bike I had to ever really 'stand on' was a 93" S&S panhead we built back in the day. Stock well tuned shovels are pretty easy.
When you get good at it, you'll kick it anyway YOU want!
Don't know why it is people have so much trouble kicker starting , I read in here " Romp on it " or " throw your weight into it " or a number or totally wrong bits of advice like that no wonder you guys blow out knees and break **** . Unless it a big inch serious motor or a damned old sportster there's no need to go after that kicker like your trying to stomp something to death . Just push it through , that's all the motor needs if it's in decent shape and has any semblance of a tune up on her . The motor just has to roll over you don't have to try to get 20rpm out of it
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