Kick starting a Cagiva E350 T4

[dilligat]

Hello
I have a 1992 ex French military Cagiva Elefant E350 T4. It has both a kick start and starter motor.
The kick start has an automatic decompression system that works off the kick starter.
This means it's a pig to find TDC to kick the thing esp when the battery has died from repeated starts when greenlaning.

Does anyone have the manual or any idea how to kick it without wasting valuable energy randomly kicking at it in the vain hope i GET THE RIGHT STROKE?

Thanks in desperation!
J

[316lad]

[Rogerborg]

Possibly helpful bit: The advice for Enfields is to put it in 2nd then roll backwards until you're stopped by compression.

Pointless aside: There's also a whole set of rituals involving pre-kicking under decompression/valve lift, listening for compression stroke whoosh, and finding TDC by watching the ammeter twitch while you slowwwwly turn it over. I followed them religiously until I realised that it was still a lottery whether it fires on the first kick, and I can be off a lot quicker by just climbing on and stamping away until I get lucky.
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[dilligat]

Thank you gents I will give the 2nd gear idea a go

[MaybeGuy]

Take out the decomp mech.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith