Thats how I kick my Panhead. All Harleys should still have kickers on them. Hell, I rode my Shovel for 2 years with a broken starter thanks to the kicker!
My '69 Triumph chopper has to have all the planets in alignment to start on the 1st kick. Usually 3 or 4 and it goes. If it doesn't, I sit back for a few minutes to wait until she tells me she feels ready....just like the wife!!!
My old bike was like that, everything had to be just so or it wasn't happening. Half the time I just gave up and used the electric. My new bike doesn't have a kick start, although I wish it did. Kick starts are so useful, being without one makes me feel a little wary of being out-of-town in case of electrics issues.
funny story.....this cat named "Beach Ball" was outside a pub in the 80's and he kicked, and kicked and kicked his shovel...... the more he kicked the bigger the crowd came to watch him. he kicked and kicked, finally, tired and fed up he sat on the seat, put on his helmet and hit the starter button. no one laughed until he was well on his way.
Reminds me of a story; The -78 shovel in my -52 Chopper allways started at first or second kick except at this gasstation. The summers hottest day, a lot of icecream-eating people watched me kick with leather jacket, helmet and so on. After ten kicks or so I took of my helmet and glasses, then my gloves.
After another 10-15 kicks I took of my jacket
Then it started! A very old man came up to me and screamed(he had to scream so I could hear): I KNEW IT WAS THE JACKET! I laughed all the way home
It's a great bike ! And the one and only KICKSTART ! There's some style when you are kicking your harley back to life. We have 2 harleys and both of them are so new that they only have electric start. Is this shovelhead with hand clutch or with the foot clutch which we call in finland as "suicide clutch" ?
When most decent motorcycles are this HARD to start it means the engine really needs work. When a HD (Hardly Drivable) P.O.S. is this EASY to start it's a minor miracle. Post it on youtube or nobody will believe it actually happened.
I guess I'm not a "real man". I'm just a dude that would have been on my bike and two miles down the road before this dude could get his motor to turn over!!
@splaxco cute, but the only people raising a skirt on my bike are chicks that want a fun-ass ride. They would get bored watching you try to kick start your hunk of shit. Does that thing use vacuum tubes???
I had an ratty, hard starting XLCH. I was kicking it one time and the gear didn't engage the kick start lever as I put everything into it...holy fuck that hurts! I rolled around on the ground grabbing my knee like some pussy soccer player
hey man nice bike, im only 16 but im in love with old pans,knucks, shovels, irons, and flatheads, no school better than old school in my opinion, im hopin to build a bike with my dad someday, anyways keep riding hard
Hey gtlip! Don't come cryin' when you loose a toe or better yet a foot. And leave the riding to the real bikers on the mainland, maybe you should stick with surfing or picking pineapples.
hey silverbulletmann I ride a 06 nighttrain and I live in hawaii and I ride, like the majority of bikers here, in shorts and flip flops so go fuck yourself you inbred fucking dick suck redneck bra so go puke with your other fag "bikers"
when i was a kid , guys in the hood would ride from phila. pa. to wildwood nj. in bare feet. at the red lights they would pull out a rag and polish the bike.
who doesn't love the old kickstart? I don't. This brings back nightmares from my ironhead sporty. Probably my own fault, but I was almost always drenched in sweat by the time it fired up.
Why don't you just push the button to start it lol I give credit to all that kick their scoots side saddle , straddle or any other position for that matter. Chris Flhp
Yeah, I know you're just making a joke...but for some of the others that may read these comments at some point....I know this may seem hard to comprehend for some of the "new kids" on the block...but there are quite a few of us riding old iron that only has a kicker....NO BUTTON!! What a concept....a real machine built by our own two hands and brought to life by our own strength....to take us over the horizon wherever those old highways may lead....
@splaxco In the small town of Nampa, Idaho I can only count 6 kickers left and my honey owns one. I think it's a shame we are getting so lazy as a society!
I was riding Harleys, Nortons, Indians, BSAs, 1 Ariel, Triumphs, 1 nitro Jawa etc. long before you "magazine" riding shit heads were born. Kicking on the side is "side saddle" and nothing more.
Well hell, now you're gonna' tell lies too? Your mamma is gonna' whup your ass little man, once we're finished with her. If it makes any difference to ya'....we ain't riding her "side saddle".
By the way...riding on the back of your mamma's "boyfriends" scooters doesn't really count, but it dang sure explains how you became such an expert on all things "side saddle"....and laying "side saddle" over the seat with your diapers around your ankles ain't got a thing to do with firing off a real bike dickwad.
You are so insecure that you post "Name: Got one" and then profess to understand Hemigway.... This alone shows that you are an ignorant fool my poor retarted friend. If you think you understand Heminway and yet you hide behind the anonymity offered by the internet (which I do not blame you for because a whole bunch of these folks, myself included, would be very happy to ventilate you) flies in the face of EVERYTHING E.Hemingway stood for. HE would kick you in your 15 year old balls my son.
Furtermore; If by some obscene twist of hellbound fate you really are an adult oilfield worker: well, just stuff a tampon in your mouth right now my friend, because you have already proved that you are a pussy.
I always kick my flatheads, panhead and shovelhead from the side. Does that make me light in the loafers? I wanna see you try to start my H-D KR without doing it "sidesaddle"
Yeah, I guess a little faggot troll like you would know all about "side saddle". One thing you don't know about is kicking over a large displacement Shovelhead. Does your mommy know you playing on her computer dick wad?
Hey Hawg maybe he needs to try to straddle with an open primary on a 96" or better. Wear your baggy pants and we'll get you a lock up clutch to make it interesting.
i kick my pan from the side and sometimes put my knee on the seat too. as long as you can get it started without the use of a button then your a REAL man. this guys generator shovel rules and i doubt anyone would say he isn't a real man to his face.
Have you ever tried to kick start a 93" high compression Shovelhead? A better question would be "Have you ever tried to kick start ANYTHING?" F'ing maroon.
Hey...how come I can't see what you originally posted cabpiss? Are you hiding it now? No matter....for those that missed it, here's his original comment:
'A real man doesn't kick "side saddle", ride "side saddle", or anything else "side saddle"... '
i like when the rubs are staring at me kicking my bike from their baggers and suggesting i get an electric starter... they look like they are witnessing a ufo sighting... all i can think is... these guys just dont get it... that being said i do ride in cargo shorts sometimes...lol
Thats how I kick my Panhead. All Harleys should still have kickers on them. Hell, I rode my Shovel for 2 years with a broken starter thanks to the kicker!
middleagedpunkrocker 6 months ago
When you can Kick start you bike, and your bike Kicks you back, THATS when you KNOW you're Shooting Bad!!
starguard 8 months ago
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Foolhollow 8 months ago
@Foolhollow ROFLMAO!! That's a joke, right??? ;-)
splaxco 8 months ago
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Foolhollow 8 months ago
My '69 Triumph chopper has to have all the planets in alignment to start on the 1st kick. Usually 3 or 4 and it goes. If it doesn't, I sit back for a few minutes to wait until she tells me she feels ready....just like the wife!!!
humbledb4jesus 8 months ago
@humbledb4jesus ROFL.
My old bike was like that, everything had to be just so or it wasn't happening. Half the time I just gave up and used the electric. My new bike doesn't have a kick start, although I wish it did. Kick starts are so useful, being without one makes me feel a little wary of being out-of-town in case of electrics issues.
Etrieys 8 months ago
very nice bike ! do u have video of walking around the bike ?
RusW0lverine 10 months ago
funny story.....this cat named "Beach Ball" was outside a pub in the 80's and he kicked, and kicked and kicked his shovel...... the more he kicked the bigger the crowd came to watch him. he kicked and kicked, finally, tired and fed up he sat on the seat, put on his helmet and hit the starter button. no one laughed until he was well on his way.
yukonmarty 11 months ago
the best part is the laugh :D
TanteKarl 11 months ago
Reminds me of a story; The -78 shovel in my -52 Chopper allways started at first or second kick except at this gasstation. The summers hottest day, a lot of icecream-eating people watched me kick with leather jacket, helmet and so on. After ten kicks or so I took of my helmet and glasses, then my gloves.
After another 10-15 kicks I took of my jacket
Then it started! A very old man came up to me and screamed(he had to scream so I could hear): I KNEW IT WAS THE JACKET! I laughed all the way home
bigblockimpala 1 year ago 4
My bike hasn't got a kickstart but I wish it did !
tubularillusion 1 year ago
kickstart only no battry foot clutch jockey shift is the only way to be. Push buttons are for the new breed pussys. DAM nice bike.
greasychoppers 1 year ago
that camera guy is peter griffin, i'd swear to it. just listen to him say "bye bye" at the end.
ifukdhhell666 1 year ago
Yer not a real biker until you can see your reflection in the dripped sweat from your brow on the tank, kicking it to life!
1957xlahd 1 year ago
Thats what you call a real Bike, to get her going you gotta put some weight on it,Not made for Jap lovin schoolboys
Mudwiggler 1 year ago
menuda pasada
maidensuena 1 year ago
nice motor
TheNumber1313 1 year ago
nice bike.very sharp..
MrDancer6696 1 year ago
It's a great bike ! And the one and only KICKSTART ! There's some style when you are kicking your harley back to life. We have 2 harleys and both of them are so new that they only have electric start. Is this shovelhead with hand clutch or with the foot clutch which we call in finland as "suicide clutch" ?
klonkku10 1 year ago
this is a bad ass bike!!!!! PEACE
VCorvelli 1 year ago
this is a badass bike!!!!!! PEACE
VCorvelli 1 year ago
When most decent motorcycles are this HARD to start it means the engine really needs work. When a HD (Hardly Drivable) P.O.S. is this EASY to start it's a minor miracle. Post it on youtube or nobody will believe it actually happened.
It's not too late to buy a Honda
offramp100 1 year ago
@offramp100 This comment is REALLY late, I know, but I felt the urge to tell you you're a gigantic douchebag.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
I guess I'm not a "real man". I'm just a dude that would have been on my bike and two miles down the road before this dude could get his motor to turn over!!
Sahadi420 1 year ago
@Sahadi420
Well heck, don't feel bad son. But I am a mite curious now....tell us, do you raise your skirt before you mount that pussified scooter of yours?
splaxco 1 year ago 38
@splaxco cute, but the only people raising a skirt on my bike are chicks that want a fun-ass ride. They would get bored watching you try to kick start your hunk of shit. Does that thing use vacuum tubes???
Sahadi420 1 year ago
@splaxco fuck all these queers brother, i went to electric on my new bike and miss the kick start !
dreadhead12345678 6 months ago
@Sahadi420 yea.... just some dumbasses like to live in the past i guess
rymax99 5 months ago
@rymax99 lol, just cause ur a bitch, cant bring something to life with your own strenght, just push the button its easier, fag
rolesvill 4 months ago
@Sahadi420 did you get a new coat too?
NevadaAnn 4 months ago
I had an ratty, hard starting XLCH. I was kicking it one time and the gear didn't engage the kick start lever as I put everything into it...holy fuck that hurts! I rolled around on the ground grabbing my knee like some pussy soccer player
jamesandrew2000 1 year ago
hey man nice bike, im only 16 but im in love with old pans,knucks, shovels, irons, and flatheads, no school better than old school in my opinion, im hopin to build a bike with my dad someday, anyways keep riding hard
bleedorange2012 1 year ago
Whats the rake on that front end? Sweet looking sled! Nice kick!
Chaser53pin 1 year ago
sweet shovel, dont see too many greybeards riding vintage, rigid iron and kicking it over. fuckin eh.
bigsky89 1 year ago
My 77 superglide had elect and kick.....2nd kick everytime. I liked my old shovel head
flesch317 2 years ago
hey snow biker
the comment on people watching is so true man
I love my kick only plus its the last one in the line that someone would try to steel
tomtom1149 2 years ago
I would hate to stall on a busy intersection.
gwozhog 2 years ago
First kick start up is standard. All the time exept when you try too video tape it. Knows mr murphys law??
tollern2 2 years ago 9
Hey gtlip! Don't come cryin' when you loose a toe or better yet a foot. And leave the riding to the real bikers on the mainland, maybe you should stick with surfing or picking pineapples.
natealb 2 years ago
Hang tough man.nice ride.real old school
coondog1964 2 years ago 4
hey silverbulletmann I ride a 06 nighttrain and I live in hawaii and I ride, like the majority of bikers here, in shorts and flip flops so go fuck yourself you inbred fucking dick suck redneck bra so go puke with your other fag "bikers"
gtlip 2 years ago
when i was a kid , guys in the hood would ride from phila. pa. to wildwood nj. in bare feet. at the red lights they would pull out a rag and polish the bike.
rickbar123 2 years ago 2
squid
zerofurybones 2 years ago
nice ride man ;):)
gogobarigoga 2 years ago
who doesent love the old kickstart
tipiser 3 years ago 2
who doesn't love the old kickstart? I don't. This brings back nightmares from my ironhead sporty. Probably my own fault, but I was almost always drenched in sweat by the time it fired up.
Motorsheep 2 years ago
but so much more satisfying when it does fire up...
snowbiker111 2 years ago 3
you wouldnt be from brick new jersey would ya?? got that oil cooler plumbed yet dipshit.
74inFLH 3 years ago
Dammit, I was told this was porn....
I use my foot to start my shovel, just in a different way.
:-)
fxrocket 3 years ago
Why don't you just push the button to start it lol I give credit to all that kick their scoots side saddle , straddle or any other position for that matter. Chris Flhp
nuyork 3 years ago
Yeah, I know you're just making a joke...but for some of the others that may read these comments at some point....I know this may seem hard to comprehend for some of the "new kids" on the block...but there are quite a few of us riding old iron that only has a kicker....NO BUTTON!! What a concept....a real machine built by our own two hands and brought to life by our own strength....to take us over the horizon wherever those old highways may lead....
splaxco 3 years ago 16
Hey Cab,
Can you tell me what fragrance you run in the fuel tank of the dirtbike?
TheProfessor7474 3 years ago
@splaxco Fuckin' right, check my bike out, it's on my channel.
AaronWallace 7 months ago
@splaxco In the small town of Nampa, Idaho I can only count 6 kickers left and my honey owns one. I think it's a shame we are getting so lazy as a society!
NevadaAnn 4 months ago
I been in magazines but I never rode one,,,
and I always started my pan from one side...
1ftwftw 3 years ago
I was riding Harleys, Nortons, Indians, BSAs, 1 Ariel, Triumphs, 1 nitro Jawa etc. long before you "magazine" riding shit heads were born. Kicking on the side is "side saddle" and nothing more.
cabritorsss 3 years ago
So the guy kicking his Shovel isn't a real man. I don't think so. Someone your age should be grown up by now.
zaac 3 years ago
Well hell, now you're gonna' tell lies too? Your mamma is gonna' whup your ass little man, once we're finished with her. If it makes any difference to ya'....we ain't riding her "side saddle".
splaxco 3 years ago
By the way...riding on the back of your mamma's "boyfriends" scooters doesn't really count, but it dang sure explains how you became such an expert on all things "side saddle"....and laying "side saddle" over the seat with your diapers around your ankles ain't got a thing to do with firing off a real bike dickwad.
splaxco 3 years ago
Hey fella, I've met some of these shitheads. They didn't even have motorcycles yet when some of them were born. Sheesh, what a maroon.
BlackShovelPaul 3 years ago
You are so insecure that you post "Name: Got one" and then profess to understand Hemigway.... This alone shows that you are an ignorant fool my poor retarted friend. If you think you understand Heminway and yet you hide behind the anonymity offered by the internet (which I do not blame you for because a whole bunch of these folks, myself included, would be very happy to ventilate you) flies in the face of EVERYTHING E.Hemingway stood for. HE would kick you in your 15 year old balls my son.
davenippon 3 years ago
Furtermore; If by some obscene twist of hellbound fate you really are an adult oilfield worker: well, just stuff a tampon in your mouth right now my friend, because you have already proved that you are a pussy.
davenippon 3 years ago
I always kick my flatheads, panhead and shovelhead from the side. Does that make me light in the loafers? I wanna see you try to start my H-D KR without doing it "sidesaddle"
greybeard5261 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
A real man doesn't kick "side saddle", ride "side saddle", or anything else "side saddle"...
cabritorsss 3 years ago
Yeah, I guess a little faggot troll like you would know all about "side saddle". One thing you don't know about is kicking over a large displacement Shovelhead. Does your mommy know you playing on her computer dick wad?
splaxco 3 years ago
And how much did you pay for the fake kicker on your vespa? That guy is 10 times the biker you dream of. Go buy some chrome.
tgbluesky 3 years ago
side-saddle????? You got some to learn boy and I'm figuring it's a good thing you are not telling that feller kicking his bike that
southerndesert 3 years ago
Since when does a dirtbike riding sissy know anything about kicking a Harely? Run on back to momma son and leave the bikes to men.
davenippon 3 years ago
Not a real nice way to speak of our Brother*
Maybe you could explain your problem with this?
Chopperoad 3 years ago
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davenippon 3 years ago
Hey Hawg maybe he needs to try to straddle with an open primary on a 96" or better. Wear your baggy pants and we'll get you a lock up clutch to make it interesting.
chicomilo 3 years ago
i kick my pan from the side and sometimes put my knee on the seat too. as long as you can get it started without the use of a button then your a REAL man. this guys generator shovel rules and i doubt anyone would say he isn't a real man to his face.
panhead55 3 years ago
Have you ever tried to kick start a 93" high compression Shovelhead? A better question would be "Have you ever tried to kick start ANYTHING?" F'ing maroon.
greybeard5261 3 years ago
Hey...how come I can't see what you originally posted cabpiss? Are you hiding it now? No matter....for those that missed it, here's his original comment:
'A real man doesn't kick "side saddle", ride "side saddle", or anything else "side saddle"... '
splaxco 3 years ago
Just another wanna be no nothing hardly worth the effort to reply.
cjweaver73 3 years ago
cool bike
Casey67921 3 years ago
ahh kickstarts...remember them? :P
ribenawrath 3 years ago
thats my kind of bike
raquer10101 3 years ago 2
Great looking Pan/Shovel....I just finished my bobbed 77 FLH and posted it....Check it out!!!!!!
13bluesbender 3 years ago
haha, did he say flip flops??? that how they ride the new bikes in arizona on the weekends...dont forget the cargo shorts....lame!!
panhead55 3 years ago
Awesome!. Yeah the fags in cargo shorts and flip flops on their wanna be bikes make me want to puke
silverbulletmann 2 years ago 2
i like when the rubs are staring at me kicking my bike from their baggers and suggesting i get an electric starter... they look like they are witnessing a ufo sighting... all i can think is... these guys just dont get it... that being said i do ride in cargo shorts sometimes...lol
snowbiker111 2 years ago 3
so nice !!!!
Easyrider650 4 years ago
The narrator's shore got a funny accent.. LMAO!!
HawgsDaddy 4 years ago
Sure.
markrskinner 4 years ago
I only noticed 'cause I was standing about 3 feet from him when he filmed this.
HawgsDaddy 4 years ago