Just wondering....

If I were to buy this, would I do something incredibly stupid. Any things I
should look out for?

http://groenen.hexon.cx/s42f7757887c602486b79a3abd7648727/details.html?id=285736

 

.... make sure you get an electric start one... you REALLY don't want to leap
up and down on a 650 kickstart

I went to look at one before settling on the F650 and watching the seller
leaping on the kickstart, getting increasingly distressed as the feckin'
thing refused to fire up was enough to put me off, waited a week longer and
got the F650 for only a few quid more.

 

Gurl.

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Don't have any probs with a couple of kicks but watching someone attempt to
multi kickstart a grumpy 650 single a pitiful sight Poor bugger was
lathered in sweat and not so much as a murmur of life from the engine.

 

I am feeling described as XR600 owner...

 

Either he's doing it wrong or the engine's nadgered. Properly set-up
engines, even big ones, should never be a problem to kickstart.

I've probably mentioned before that early goldwings came with a
detachable kickstart that lived under the dummy tank. Took just a
minute to fit and was really not at all difficult to get it started
with...

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They really aren't the best or most solid four-stroke singles. If it's
a four-stroke thumper dirt bike you want, it' got to be a Yamaha or
nothing.

 

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May I introduce you to flook's CR500 and the legwounds flook and others
incurred? The persons who managed to start the fucker, were allowed to ride
it. Not many have had the pleasure (?)

TYVM

 

Spete wrote

Might I mention Onebus an XBR500 which had both electric and kick-start
and what I used to pose with when there was burds looking by jumping up
and down on it but only when it was warm and what never bit me once.

 

....unless you've just fallen off them, in which case they're all
complete bastards, no matter how well they're setup.


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Where "nothing" equals 'Honda', obviously.

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I've ridden it.

Jumping off the milk crate was the desired method.

 

Someone remind me - was it a cr500 that WavyDavy (I think) had at the
EOSM I came over for a couple of years back? I remember several people
failing to start it, but a quick 'give it here' later (by me) and it
started first kick.

Mebbe it was a 250, thinking about it...

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Heh. Too true, sadly. But much more so with strokers, for some reason.

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Fond memories of '78 XT500 I had back in... err, 1978.
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Spete said...

XRFucking400cuntingR

I still have the scars on my shin, and I had a motherfucker of a
haematoma on the back of my right calf until I put CE armour in the back
of my trousers to protect it.

 

I've wheelied it )[1]

[1] ok... so there is no option but to wheelie it... it;s a CR500 )

 

My SRX 600 would start OK when hot and when cold, but when warm...
forget it!

The choke system was dreadful.

 

Is that the 'twin choke' Teikei carb set up ? If so there is a cunning
plan devised by Nordwest owners who suffer similar problems.
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