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<blockquote data-quote="Normski" data-source="post: 117536" data-attributes="member: 3106"><p>When I bought my Egli it had a standard kickstart which stuck into my leg when riding and made things uncomfortable. Following a suggestion from the section disorganiser who showed me a photo of a folding combined footrest/gearchange I made a crude version of this which I’ve used since. It needs refining but has served quite well. Main problems are the kickstart doesn’t clear the gear-lever, footrest and gear selector lever by enough and I have to be very careful if wearing overtrousers and the pattern AMC kickstart lever which I used for the lower part has bent a little. </p><p>On Dave Dunfey’s suggestion I indexed the lever to sit low ( actually near horizontal) which looks wrong but works very well. Ideally I would like to raise the footrests a tad and to achieve this I’d need to index it a little higher.</p><p>I’ve bought one of the kickstart shafts with the splines for a Honda kickstart and hope to try this sometime to try to overcome the problems mentioned above with the current set up. Biggest problem looks to be getting it to sit snug when folded in without fouling the gearbox cover. I don’t know if the smaller splines will be problematic or not but it came from a man who knows what he is doing with Vincents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Normski, post: 117536, member: 3106"] When I bought my Egli it had a standard kickstart which stuck into my leg when riding and made things uncomfortable. Following a suggestion from the section disorganiser who showed me a photo of a folding combined footrest/gearchange I made a crude version of this which I’ve used since. It needs refining but has served quite well. Main problems are the kickstart doesn’t clear the gear-lever, footrest and gear selector lever by enough and I have to be very careful if wearing overtrousers and the pattern AMC kickstart lever which I used for the lower part has bent a little. On Dave Dunfey’s suggestion I indexed the lever to sit low ( actually near horizontal) which looks wrong but works very well. Ideally I would like to raise the footrests a tad and to achieve this I’d need to index it a little higher. I’ve bought one of the kickstart shafts with the splines for a Honda kickstart and hope to try this sometime to try to overcome the problems mentioned above with the current set up. Biggest problem looks to be getting it to sit snug when folded in without fouling the gearbox cover. I don’t know if the smaller splines will be problematic or not but it came from a man who knows what he is doing with Vincents. [/QUOTE]
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