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<blockquote data-quote="BigEd" data-source="post: 112411" data-attributes="member: 161"><p>Only my opinion, as I don't know you or your circumstances but I think you would have been better putting your money towards an electric start kit. My Rapide has always been a good starter, if it needed more than two kicks you had forgotten to turn the petrol on or similar. I am pretty active but 50 + years of kickstarting bikes my knees have had enough. I have several more modern electric start bikes so I know how convenient a handlebar starter button is. I have fitted my Grosset electric start a few years ago and it works very well. I have even taken the kick start lever off so I'm not even tempted to kick it. If for some reason the battery is flat it will start with a push as I don't have coil ignition. Tales of broken sprag clutches etc are, I believe over-exaggerated with most problems being caused by incorrect fitting and lack of attention to ignition timing. Francois stresses in his instruction sheets the importance of not having too much advance for starting as it is backfires that are not good for sprag clutches.</p><p>The above sounds like an advert for electric starts but if riding becomes more difficult we have to try to make things easier to ride and that, first and foremost is our ability to get the thing going.</p><p>A set of starter rollers would be great in your workshop but is no use at all when you are not at home. If I want to spin the engine over at home I use the electric start. As I said at the beginning, just my opinion but based on using an electric start on my Rapide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigEd, post: 112411, member: 161"] Only my opinion, as I don't know you or your circumstances but I think you would have been better putting your money towards an electric start kit. My Rapide has always been a good starter, if it needed more than two kicks you had forgotten to turn the petrol on or similar. I am pretty active but 50 + years of kickstarting bikes my knees have had enough. I have several more modern electric start bikes so I know how convenient a handlebar starter button is. I have fitted my Grosset electric start a few years ago and it works very well. I have even taken the kick start lever off so I'm not even tempted to kick it. If for some reason the battery is flat it will start with a push as I don't have coil ignition. Tales of broken sprag clutches etc are, I believe over-exaggerated with most problems being caused by incorrect fitting and lack of attention to ignition timing. Francois stresses in his instruction sheets the importance of not having too much advance for starting as it is backfires that are not good for sprag clutches. The above sounds like an advert for electric starts but if riding becomes more difficult we have to try to make things easier to ride and that, first and foremost is our ability to get the thing going. A set of starter rollers would be great in your workshop but is no use at all when you are not at home. If I want to spin the engine over at home I use the electric start. As I said at the beginning, just my opinion but based on using an electric start on my Rapide. [/QUOTE]
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