Model a hand crank

[dumb person]

Originally Posted by ba49

I fractured my foot on my stroked Sportster"....." It would lift me right off the kickstarter if I forgot to retard the timing before kicking it. It didn't have an electric starter. I broke the arch in my right foot when it kicked back. I actually bent 2 stock kick levers 90 degrees "....."
There also used to be a thing called Sportster knee caused by hyper-extending your knee when the kicker ratchet slipped as you jumped on the kicker. I limped for several years after I sold the bike. Aw the good old days"
Bill

i did all that with a 90cc bike.

[jkeesey]

I sold a kid (who am i kidding he was older than i was) an old yamaha bobber and i had to give him a crash course on how to kick start a bike. He left my house still not knowing how to do it but said hed be fine. i got a call 2 hours later that he pulled over just to check everything and he couldnt start it back up.

[Bill in SoCal]

Remember - always pull up and never put your thumb around the crank. If you remember - could save you a lot of pain. Happy cranking, Bill

[1946]

I kick start the 18' Henderson, Hand swing the prop on the 46' Auster, and hand crank the 29' DA Dodge 6

[Christoph]

I guess last car to have hand crank was Renault R4 ,
built (in Columbia) till 1991.


Edit
ok - should have read the link first.
Still hand-crank might be available for Lada (will try to find out about).

[Bruce Lancaster]

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So...anyone know of a post-1948 USA car with crank available???

[Tom Wesenberg]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lancaster

So...anyone know of a post-1948 USA car with crank available???

My 1950 Studebaker still had the slotted crank bolt, but no hole through the grill for the crank handle to fit.

I hand cranked my 49 Chevy truck a lot, but don't know when the last American car was built to have a hand crank.

[juke joint johnny]

Originally Posted by Bruce Lancaster

The British in general had little faith in batteries...probably a combo of Lucas batteries and those parking lights they had to leave on.
Along with the cranks, they had hand levers on the fuel pump to prime the works...
I too have some experience flogging Hillman Minxes and Huskies...

Bruce
What about those crazy cup shape battery connectors held on by a self tapping screw!!! You only had to go over a few bumps and they would come loose. Then you had a bad connection and a non starting car no matter how good the battery was!!
I think the British supplied cranks to allmost all the cars untill they got rid of those connectors in the 60's

John Cochran

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by juke joint johnny

Bruce
What about those crazy cup shape battery connectors held on by a self tapping screw!!! You only had to go over a few bumps and they would come loose. Then you had a bad connection and a non starting car no matter how good the battery was!!
I think the British supplied cranks to allmost all the cars untill they got rid of those connectors in the 60's

John Cochran

John,
I had forgotten about those+*%#^%^% battery cable ends! And how about those+*$^%$ Lucas batteries that under a HEAVY load test, one cell would mysteriously SWITCH polarity??? That condition would cause the Dynamo (generator) NOT to charge!! (No wonder I have handsome Grey Hair!!) Bill W.

[ba49]

Had an old R50 BMW that I could actually start with my hand on the kick starter. Low stock compression. Didn't have to jump on it, just step down on it. My cousin had an old 60s Hilman Husky that we used to crank when the starter broke.

[Christoph]

Had an old R50 BMW that I could actually start with my hand on the kick starter

@ ba49
Lucky you. R50 is best BMW ever.
You should have kept it.

Im able to hand-kick-start my BMW R26 too.

I got an R100GS (1992) with kick starter on it.
They changed kick-starter-gear-ratio, as 40pound ladies should
be able to use kick-starter too.

40 pound ladies are able to turn engine now
BUT
...even fully-grown man (me) are not able to start the engine anymore.
One kick is around 0,2 of one revolution.


BMW got to get rid of kick-starters back than,
as they forgot how ratio should be