First Start!

Danny at Laughing Indian likes to promise a one kick motor on his rebuilds. That seems like a pretty big boast but he still rides these old scouts on the wall of death every summer so who am I to argue? 🙂

I got the motor back from Danny on April 5th of 2021. It was not until a full year later on April 16th 2022 that I had the bike all together enough to kick her over. At this point the carb was only cursory dialed in and I had changed the intake manifold with a spacer to keep the carb a little further away from the cylinders. Long story short, it was not exactly the same way it left Danny down in Florida. There was no way it was going to kick over with just one kick!

Wow! I was blown away.

What did not get recorded in the video were my 2 priming kicks with the carb closed. Those don’t count as that’s just part of getting it ready for the starting kick.