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Title: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Kiwi_Roy on March 30, 2015, 12:24:55 PM: I must have been imagining things but I thought I saw a thread bemoaning the fact the guzzi doesn't have a kickstart

I'm sure one of these can be adapted
http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,71137.msg1652150.html#.VRmD5E05Cmw
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: arveno on March 30, 2015, 01:17:59 PM: that is for the pussy harley rider that wanna be a bad ass , faking to kickstart the bike .
And of course the king of all pussiess Fonzie , approve lol

guzzis don't need kick start , just push it... ( i pushed my SP for a month because i could not fix the starter )
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: HDGoose on March 30, 2015, 01:46:19 PM: I remember the magazine articles noting that the Guzzi didn't have a kicker. It was a huge thing in 1967 as the first 'big bike' without a kicker even being available.
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: sign216 on March 30, 2015, 02:01:27 PM: For a while I hunted Ebay in Europe, looking for one of the kickstarters that were put on the smallblock Nato edition.

I eventually gave up. The ones I found were tres $$$. Although the idea still lurks....
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: youcanrunnaked on March 30, 2015, 02:08:43 PM: If you buy that you should not be allowed to take your motorcycle out of the garage. Just sit on it and make "vroom, vroom" noises with your mouth.
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Kiwi_Roy on March 30, 2015, 02:28:46 PM: Wot. you don't think it would be a good backup for a flat battery scenario ???

Just kidding ;D
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: huub on March 30, 2015, 02:33:26 PM: the nato gearbox is pretty easy to find over here, but it will come with a V35 gearing
you cant simply change the gearing to a V50 or V65 gearing , because the kickstart mechanism works on the primary drive.
changing the gearing is possible , but quite a challenge
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: sign216 on March 30, 2015, 04:03:24 PM: Quote from: huub on March 30, 2015, 02:33:26 PM
the nato gearbox is pretty easy to find over here, but it will come with a V35 gearing
you cant simply change the gearing to a V50 or V65 gearing , because the kickstart mechanism works on the primary drive.
changing the gearing is possible , but quite a challenge

Huub,
Thank you for the education. I thought the Nato bike was a V65, but it was 350?
Joe
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Penderic on March 30, 2015, 04:38:04 PM: Pull start!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/starting-a-car-with-a-rope-628_zpsum7yu75l.jpg)
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Markcarovilli on March 30, 2015, 07:14:12 PM: Quote from: Penderic on March 30, 2015, 04:38:04 PM
Pull start!
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/starting-a-car-with-a-rope-628_zpsum7yu75l.jpg)
:bow
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 30, 2015, 07:51:05 PM: That ain't nothin.. you can rope start a DC3. It's in the manual.. ;D
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: guzzisteve on March 30, 2015, 07:59:53 PM: I have wondered who would buy one that attached to the starter bolts, it is very doable.
Would you spend $200 for one? $400?
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Rough Edge racing on March 31, 2015, 05:42:31 AM: Just to the rear of the folded side stand and under the starter motor... Is that the kick start lever?

(http://me-moto.com/uploads/postfotos/moto-guzzi-v50-1.JPG)
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: huub on March 31, 2015, 06:17:34 AM: that is the kickstart..
The V50 nato had a shorter gearing as the civilian V50 ,
probably to be used on parades? who knows.

the first time i saw a V50 nato a soldier had broken down on the highway.
curious, i stopped.
he was quite relaxed about it. basically the engine had seized .
he said it ran pretty well, went to its 135 km/hour topspeed, and suddenly died on him.
135 km/hour is probably past its redline.
when i looked at the odo , the poor thing had 24 km on the clock... ???
Title: Re: Kickstart for Your Guzzi
Post by: Jerryd on March 31, 2015, 12:48:38 PM: If you could see what my Norton has done to my shins, you wouldn't be interested :-[