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De-Compression Port

Postby coaster » Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:41 pm

I have heard a few people complaining about rngines being too hard to kick over and just saw this posted by Steve Richards (The Steel Weeze) on You Tube. Just wondering why no one has suggested drilling a decompression port before, thoughts anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFpLUZk6R1s
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby missing lynx » Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:41 pm

My Quattrini's got one as std
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby lozmondo » Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:08 pm

missing lynx wrote:My Quattrini's got one as std


The early ones didnt, I have a right leg like popeyes forearm to prove it :)
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby Tractorman » Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:10 am

That's interesting and could well resolve a problem I have with a scootopia kit, thanks.
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby missing lynx » Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:02 pm

lozmondo wrote:
missing lynx wrote:My Quattrini's got one as std


The early ones didnt, I have a right leg like popeyes forearm to prove it :)

Ha ha I thought there was something wrong when I first spotted the hole but I heard a few lads with the early version have calves like Grealish lol
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby dickie » Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:54 pm

I remember watching a lad on a track day at croft on a kx500 supermoto. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I watched the poor bloke trying to kick it over.

You could see he was genuinely scared of it and I don't blame him.

No idea if a KX has a decompression port or not, but it certainly didn't look like it.
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby Fast n Furious » Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:07 am

Ever tried to kick off a Panther 600?
They were known as "Fire once every lampost.... break a leg every 6 weeks" :o
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Re: De-Compression Port

Postby coaster » Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:34 am

Fast n Furious wrote:Ever tried to kick off a Panther 600?
They were known as "Fire once every lampost.... break a leg every 6 weeks" :o


Funnily enough I have, one came into the motorcycle garrage that I worked in for a while when I left school, I stunned at the length of the cylinder so gave the kickstart a lazy kick. I must have caught it on the downward exhaust stroke as there was no resistance just a long sucking noise, somone told me I was lucky it didnt fire as it would have launched me through the window if it had :shock:
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