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John:
Yo,

Let's start a new topic here. How do ya do an optimized start! There are some different techniques... Any suggestions?

//John

bigborefan:
Are you talking race starts or starting the Green Beast' engine.

 For the engine, I put mine in 1st gear, turn on the choke, turn on the fuel petcock. With the bike off of the stand, I then push the bike back and forth for about 30 - 45 second It is really more of a 'Rocking" forward and backward then a "push". You will feel the piston turning over. Bring the kickstarter all the way up, and give a good kickthrough. This charges the cylinder with a fuel air mixture. I learned this from some old dude at Loretta Lynns in 1994. I had a 1994 Honda 500 that would never start. This trick will start your bike on one kick 98% of the time.

John:
Sorry I wasn't clear. I was more thinking about race starts...

Which gear do you start on, any scientific tests? What about after changing the gearing - start on a different gear? I bet someone here has tested this out. Please let me know.

//John

Rick:
A lot of this is going to depend upon whether you are talking about live engine starts like in motocross or dead engine starts as in off road racing.  If it's off road dead engine starts you want to talk about, we have done a lot of analysis that I can share, and we consistently have great starts.  Just let us know what type of racing, and we can let the games begin.

Rick

John:
We can have two threads running here; MX + Offroad.

//John

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