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<blockquote data-quote="greg brillus" data-source="post: 135987" data-attributes="member: 597"><p>Just quickly getting back to some of the items pointed out so far.........Bills picture showing the push button decompressors work extremely well, I used those exact same ones on the twin racer in my pic to the left.......Ideal for a high comp race bike, and easy to use, probably a bit awkward on this type of bike but still worth considering.........Norman's idea too is a good one, although sometimes I think the stock valve lifter can be an issue.........the force required to lift both exhaust valves at some part of the cycle might be a bit much for a solenoid.......not sure how you would hide it from sight, a large solenoid hanging out the rear of the timing chest might be a bit ugly........And a stock cable, handlebar lever assembly might also be awkward on such narrow bars........these Egli bars are tiny.... way smaller than the ones on my racer. So it could be either a solenoid decomp valve screwed into another sparkplug hole machined into each head, or the Royal Enfield ones work very well and take absolutely no effort to operate, even if 2 of them are coupled together like a one into 2 throttle cable set up. Thanks for the pics Gene, very nice........That starter looks good, although the motor housing is very short........The Godet one is longer and they hang down to clear the drive chain........It is worth noting that as the engine capacity grows, the effort to crank it goes up substantially, so this all adds up to a difficult problem. A good friend and mechanic told me those Harley type starters come with different length motor housings that readily bolt up from one to another, so that may be of help in getting a bit more oomph into it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg brillus, post: 135987, member: 597"] Just quickly getting back to some of the items pointed out so far.........Bills picture showing the push button decompressors work extremely well, I used those exact same ones on the twin racer in my pic to the left.......Ideal for a high comp race bike, and easy to use, probably a bit awkward on this type of bike but still worth considering.........Norman's idea too is a good one, although sometimes I think the stock valve lifter can be an issue.........the force required to lift both exhaust valves at some part of the cycle might be a bit much for a solenoid.......not sure how you would hide it from sight, a large solenoid hanging out the rear of the timing chest might be a bit ugly........And a stock cable, handlebar lever assembly might also be awkward on such narrow bars........these Egli bars are tiny.... way smaller than the ones on my racer. So it could be either a solenoid decomp valve screwed into another sparkplug hole machined into each head, or the Royal Enfield ones work very well and take absolutely no effort to operate, even if 2 of them are coupled together like a one into 2 throttle cable set up. Thanks for the pics Gene, very nice........That starter looks good, although the motor housing is very short........The Godet one is longer and they hang down to clear the drive chain........It is worth noting that as the engine capacity grows, the effort to crank it goes up substantially, so this all adds up to a difficult problem. A good friend and mechanic told me those Harley type starters come with different length motor housings that readily bolt up from one to another, so that may be of help in getting a bit more oomph into it. [/QUOTE]
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