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Hey all!
I've never had to mess with a kickstart before so forgive me if I'm just missing something.
My kick has worked great since I've had the bike. I was riding off road a bit yesterday and stalled the bike. I tried to kick start it in gear with the clutch pulled but it had extra tension on it and maybe would have lurched if I was on pavement, I'm only 120lbs so I decided to put it in neural and kick it like normal. When I tried to do this it didn't catch,I used electric start with a weak battery to get going and once I stopped again he kick engaged in neutral. I get the bike home and again it's not engaging. Start it electrically fine. Then once I put it away I checked and the kick had tension/would engage. I've read a bit about kicker failures but mine is intermittent. Any thoughts before I go digging?
I've never had to mess with a kickstart before so forgive me if I'm just missing something.
My kick has worked great since I've had the bike. I was riding off road a bit yesterday and stalled the bike. I tried to kick start it in gear with the clutch pulled but it had extra tension on it and maybe would have lurched if I was on pavement, I'm only 120lbs so I decided to put it in neural and kick it like normal. When I tried to do this it didn't catch,I used electric start with a weak battery to get going and once I stopped again he kick engaged in neutral. I get the bike home and again it's not engaging. Start it electrically fine. Then once I put it away I checked and the kick had tension/would engage. I've read a bit about kicker failures but mine is intermittent. Any thoughts before I go digging?