Kickstart for Your Guzzi

[Kiwi_Roy]

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

[arveno]

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 )

[HDGoose]

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.

[sign216]

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....

[youcanrunnaked]

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.

[Kiwi_Roy]

Wot. you don't think it would be a good backup for a flat battery scenario  ???



Just kidding ;D

[huub]

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

[sign216]

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

[Penderic]

Pull start!

[Markcarovilli]

Pull start!

:bow

[Chuck in Indiana]

That ain't nothin.. you can rope start a DC3. It's in the manual..  ;D

[guzzisteve]

I have wondered who would buy one that attached to the starter bolts, it is very doable.
Would you spend $200 for one? $400?

[Rough Edge racing]

  Just to the rear of the folded side stand and under the starter motor... Is that the kick start lever?

   

[huub]

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... ???

[Jerryd]

If you could see what my Norton has done to my shins, you wouldn't be interested :-[