[LarsBloodbeard]

Bare, there are compression release levers you can mount on the bottom of your clutch bracket.  It basically replaces the bottom clamp.

[LarsBloodbeard]

Like this:

[tooseevee]

Like this:

            What a NEAT idea! Very neat.

[Ducati Scotty]

You're going to drill a hole in a perfectly good engine?  That just doesn't make any sense!

[GlennF]

You can also use the kicker to get the piston to just before TDC before hitting the ES button.

[barenekd]

You can also use the kicker to get the piston to just before TDC before hitting the ES button.

If you're going to kick it up there, you should kick it just PAST TDC, so you don't put that initial big load on the ES.
The reason I would rather have the manual one is that it would be far easier to kick it past TDC when you're kick starting it. As it is, nudging it past TDC is a bit of a PITA.
I don't usually worry about the ES, frankly. It goes from wherever I push the button. The comment on the previous was for those who do.
Bare

[tooseevee]

You're going to drill a hole in a perfectly good engine?  That just doesn't make any sense!

            Of course I wouldn't. I thought the LEVER was a neat idea.

[barenekd]

You're going to drill a hole in a perfectly good engine?  That just doesn't make any sense!

Show me a perfectly good engine!
I'd drill a hole in an Enfield. The hardest part has already been done by them. They used to drill holes there themselves. It's an "Open" invitation!
Bare

[Ducati Scotty]

I guess you called me out.  I'm a constant tinkerer.  My wife finds it amazing how much time I spend working on a motorcycle that's not even broken.

Some people can leave well enough alone.  I don't know any of them personally

Scott

[jartist]

I am totally intrigued by the manual decompression idea even though my auto decompression works fine.  My sprag slips at times and I think the only thing that makes me want to leave the sprag in there is that the auto decompressor lets the compression down too slow which makes the kickstarts take too long to set up if you stall out at a light.

[barenekd]

My wife finds it amazing how much time I spend working on a motorcycle that's not even broken.

Yeah, my wife is always asking me what's wrong with that bike? you're always working on it. It must not be very good.
And I tell  her, Nothings wrong with it. I just tinker with it because it makes me happy. If it wasn't that, I'd be building model airplanes or something else.
Why is she vacuuming all the time? Drives me nuts. She's obsessed with the vacuum cleaner
Bare.

[Ducati Scotty]

Nobody in my house is osessed with the vacuum cleaner, and I think that's fine

[ADB]

My dogs are obsessed w/ mine..does that count?

[ace.cafe]

If you did it just right, you could install the same manual decompressor that the Iron Barrel bikes use. It goes in that same place where you are talking about drilling that hole. And the Iron Barrels already have a left side switch cluster that already has the decompressor lever built in to it.

And if you did it just right, you could drill the little vent outlet for the decompressor that vents into the exhaust port, just like the Iron Barrel does.

[Ducati Scotty]

Will triggering a manual decompressor while the engine is running kill it?  I could swear that's how my friend's moped worked when I was a kid.

Scott