[Bath Bullet]

I bought a K/S pawl and spring as a spare just in case, how often do these need replacing, if ever?
They are so cheap its not money wasted in my view.

[ace.cafe]

The newer ones are improved, and last even longer than the old ones did.
I have the original pawl in my 2000 Bullet, and it gets kickstarted every time, because it's a kickstart-only bike.

If you have the bike tuned well, so that it doesn't do many kick-backs, then it's going to last a long time. But, it's good to have one on hand, just in case it did break. It can happen with a bad kick-back.
But honestly, when I was re-jetting my carb for the exhaust and air-filter change, i got some hellacious kick-backs because it was lean, and my pawl made it through that just fine.

[birdmove]

  Ha. I bought a spare for my 2007 Classic too-just in case.


jon

[Rick Sperko]

This topic has me focused on my cold kickstarting. I was having a lot of trouble when cold. I built a dial gauge tdc tool and was able to kickstart this morning in 29 degrees. Now I just need to dial in my bikes kickstart process. Seems like it is:

decompress two kicks, enricher, and a little gas. I did get a kickback, but it wasn't too bad.