Erfolgreicher Kickstart?

[wergan]

In step 7, you need to bring the piston to a position just beyond top dead center, after the compression stroke. This is true of any large displacement single, regardless of whether there is a compression release mechanism, or not.


This is the ideal spot for you to reap the greatest benefit from your subsequent kick, to actually start the engine. From this position, you are beginning your kick with the power stroke. Compression in the cylinder is helping you, rather than fighting you. Your kick is spinning the engine easily through the Power Stroke, Exhaust Stroke, Intake Stroke, and finally Compression Stroke. Done in the manner, you cause your kick to impart the greatest amount of inertia into the flywheel before encountering the next compression stroke. And, you pulled in a fresh fuel/air charge along the way.

I disagree with that, and the owners instruction as well suggests a different way of starting.
When positioning the piston to TDC your way, the next strokes will be firing and exhaust, meaning one complete turn of the crancshaft is wasted until intake of gas is about to start.
The manual as well as contemporary and later test articles in motorcycle rewiews suggest the same: "kick the kickstarter", without any further pre-condition, in any which position it might be. The essential thing in my opinion and experience is to kick it powerful, from the very top of the lever position to enable automatic decompression.