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Starting my bike last week after washing it, the kick start lever bit back.



Each day brings a new shade of purple or yellow to the event, at least it makes Kim laugh.

This is it's course over the last week, it's ongoing joy for sure.

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Oh dear.. been there but wasn't bit as badly.
You only do it once and then you remember to wear your MX boots every time.

All of that from pressing the start button?

Typical ktm,
Must have been broken again!

It's running fine actually.



For once

Jug wrote: ↑Feb 19th, '24, 17:52 Oh dear.. been there but wasn't bit as badly.
You only do it once and then you remember to wear your MX boots every time.

Point of impact was just above the top of the boot.

That looks bloody painful!

Quite some years ago now someone had the great idea of placing a button on the right hand switchgear linked to a little electric motor acting on the crankshaft .......

billinom8s wrote: ↑Feb 19th, '24, 18:33 Point of impact was just above the top of the boot.

You wearing ankle boots?

Nope, proper off Road ones

TLS-Moose wrote: ↑Feb 19th, '24, 21:31 Quite some years ago now someone had the great idea of placing a button on the right hand switchgear linked to a little electric motor acting on the crankshaft .......

Same people kept the kickstart on things like dirt bikes to give the user a backup option for then the battery decided it had had a hard day. This then refused or even removed the owners requirement to obtain a larger form of transport for recovery or even worse, to push the bike home.

billinom8s wrote: ↑Feb 19th, '24, 22:19 Nope, proper off Road ones

So what now, only kick when wearing boots and chin/knee pads?

sod that, i'll just kick it again

Ey up lad, you want to have a DBD34 kick back on you. We all had shins of steel back in the day