Electric start?

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Electric start?

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Does anyone have any idea if an electric start was a factory option?

If not, any idea if this was an after-market kit or possibly adapted from a different bike?

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Wow :o A lot of (quality) work in that conversion!
Keep shiny side up.

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I am guessing that you would need a much more powerful battery than the standard one. Cheers. Bruce.
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Looks like this could be the source

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Very interesting you tube clip, that's some engineering involved in the kit! I notice the clip was posted in 2012, I wonder how many sets of casings they cast? Very nice arrangement.
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Hi

Seems to me to be another case of a solution looking for a problem.

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This setup was featured in the Jampot several years ago, time to dust down those old copies and see who can be first to identify which one.
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Mick D wrote:Hi

Seems to me to be another case of a solution looking for a problem.

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Wow - That is a very impressive and well engineered mod!

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Duncan wrote:This setup was featured in the Jampot several years ago, time to dust down those old copies and see who can be first to identify which one.
July 2011 Issue 708.
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