RGM Kicker on 850 MK3?

Can someone let me know if the RGM folding kcker works ok on the MK3 850? A friend is interested but concerned about clearance of silencers...bc je had a mk2 kicker that did not clear correctly.

Thx.

As far as I can remember it said on the RGM page that it didn't fit the Mk3.

Tornado said:

Can someone let me know if the RGM folding kcker works ok on the MK3 850? A friend is interested but concerned about clearance of silencers...bc je had a mk2 kicker that did not clear correctly.

Thx.

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LAB is correct.

"WILL NOT FIT A MK3 COMMANDO WITH STANDARD FOOTRESTS.

FITS ALL NORTON KICKSTART SHAFTS, COMMANDO, AMC, LAYDOWN, UPRIGHT ETC.
ALSO WORKS WITH NORMAN HYDE MK3 REARSETS."

If you have folding footrests on your mk3, I think they would.

Ah I see. Ok. Will let him know the bad news. He's a rake thin lad and his bike seems to have quite a bit of compression so he struggles at kick over. Estart currently out of commission but we do plan to sort it. Ill recommend he put on some pounds...works for me.

Tornado said:

Ah I see. Ok. Will let him know the bad news. He's a rake thin lad and his bike seems to have quite a bit of compression so he struggles at kick over. Estart currently out of commission but we do plan to sort it. Ill recommend he put on some pounds...works for me.

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He just hasn't learned the knack of kick starting his Norton, nothing to do with being a rake thin lad.

ashman said:

He just hasn't learned the knack of kick starting his Norton, nothing to do with being a rake thin lad.

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You can study what he does in this little LoA parody viddy he sent me a while back....

He still don't have the proper knack, doing a kick start without being on the centre stand or using a side stand and getting it to fire up on the first kick is the knack, getting the pistons in the right position before the kick is very important and using the clutch to free up the kicker as well and sitting on the bike to kick it as well once the knack has been learned, I learned the knack very quickly in my youth of owning my new 850 Norton, 50 years now and in that time I have seen so many frustrations with some Norton owners trying to kick start their bike because they doing it all wrong and have seen a few just give up and sell the bike because they can't do it, these days most will just throw on a ES kit, couldn't do that in the early days, I have now lost that knack from the lost of my kicking leg, I miss it already.