New guy here

[The Mighty Gryphon]

greetings...

that aint laitch... thats an impostor...

j o

Thank Goodness!!!  That post shattered my worldview.

[Chaos]

third or fourth gear is used for bump starting is that those gears will produce more rotations of the crankshaft

Partly true, in 1st the rear wheel may lock up and you get no rotation.  Or you may be of the school that downshifting destroys the transmission in which case you have no option but to stay in a high gear.

[Scott]

The last time i bumped started a motorbike was about 30 years ago, 1982 Suzuki gs1100gk.  I was doing okay considering the weight of the beast but I couldn't quite manage to get enough speed, luckily for me a nice UPS driver jumped out of his truck and gave me the boost i needed to get it going.  I've never forgotten that nice gesture.  He must have been a bmw owner.  Now i try to keep top quality batteries in all my rides.  Thumb is easier now. scott.

[Laitch]

A very important consideration when an old guy is pushing the bike.

It not age, it's just as a drummer, you're all about fast twitch. :-)
 
When it comes to bump starting when batteries were dead, I never considered how dead they were—kind of dead, dead or really dead. I just bumped started the vehicles and kept the throttles up after that. If they weren't relics, they started. When the revs dropped, it was get out and do it over again. The worst car I had for that was Peugeot 404. One flimsy alternator after another. One bad battery after another. I finally traded it for a pair of Justin boots. I had those for twenty years.

[Zfoster8]

If someone figures out how to install a kick start on a K-bike I am all ears! One thing about dirtbikes, you never have to worry about a dead battery as long as you have a good leg to kick with.

[Laitch]

One thing about dirtbikes, you never have to worry about a dead battery as long as you have a good leg to kick with.

You can still wind up with one that has been tinkered to death though, and wind up with a pulled groin muscle. :-) Public transportation is the way to go.

[Chaos]

One thing about dirtbikes.........

Or a Ural.  Though my overdeveloped right leg is making me walk in circles.

[Martin]

I don't miss kick starters at all. I  angle parked my Ducati 450 RT, and on trying to kick start it, it backfired launching the baffles out of the exhaust. The baffles took a chunk out of the tiles 1'' below a plate glass shop window. I grabbed the baffle and took off before the shop keeper emerged.
Regards Martin.

[Zfoster8]

Woof! Closest i ever came to that was nearly breaking my leg when my '73 Elsinore 250 decided to kick me back. No compression release, but it really needed one.

[Skunky]

When the Starter was playing up in my brick I was bump starting in second. Never had a problem, always started first run.