[Ducati] Rejoined the list! (now, Old bikes)

[Ronald Betts]

Oh yea, I forgot about kickstarters. Good times. I remember on time years 
ago watching my buddy kickstart his little Bultaco Lobido 100. Kick starter 
was on the left and he was sitting on the cranky little monster trying to 
get it lit. He's kicking like the devil when the thing backfires and shoves 
his left kneecap into the handlebars....OUCH! Wait were not through yet. The 
bike is running now and through a fog of pain he pulls in the clutch , puts 
it in gear, hits the throttle real hard and pops the clutch. Bike takes off 
backwards and he smash's his boys hard on the tank and then the steering 
head....OUCH ! He looked like that little guy on Laugh In and just fell 
over. Yes two strokes will run in reverse and my buddy will tell you so. I 
think I'm still sporting some permanant dents in my shin from the kick start 
devil. But yes I do agree with you Vicki that there really is something 
satisfying in kicking your beast to life.



Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!





>From: Veloce916 at aol.com
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: ducati at ducati.net
>Subject: Re: [Ducati] Rejoined the list! (now, Old bikes)
>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:13:14 EDT
>
>
>At the risk of exposing myself as an even larger nutcase than you guys
>already know I am - I prefer the "relationship" of a kickstart bike. You 
>can't
>just get on it and ride it. You have to pay attention and form a mutual 
>respect
>sort of bond. Until it happens you want to kick the bike (not in a good 
>way),
>after it happens, well, that's pretty special. Those of you who ride old
>bikes  know exactly what I mean. I'm off on the Motogiro in a few days and 
>I can
>not  wait to get my hands on "Vicki 6" (whatever bike Mr. Caracchi has 
>built
>for me,  I'll see it when I get there) because I know it's going to be such 
>a
>perfect  machine (they ALWAYS are) that it will take about 5 minutes in the
>parking  lot looking it over and practicing kicking it to life and after 
>that it's
>5 days  of the best bike bonding that could possible exist!
>For me, life just doesn't get any better.
>Vicki
>
>
>In a message dated 5/3/2007 9:41:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>frugalyankee-cycles at yahoo.com writes:
>
>Those  'old gals' are a great ride sometimes. Seeing an original Indian 
>side
>shifter  coming down the country roads here after a long winter spewing 
>enough
>oil  smoke to make you think its on fire will always get a big smile out of
>me.   Especially when you get on a 'modern' ride to appreciate how  refined
>they have become.  Too bad they're a real 'bear' to work on  without all 
>the
>fancy tools.
>
>Brad
>CT.
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