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Right hand shift and kick start! Never heard of this old Meriden prototype. LINK 
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Would have been cool to see that in a production bike. Be cool to see it brought back and put in a bike now too. (with points and kick start of course)
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New Tires
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Could that possibly be the ass end of a Hurricane in that photo? 
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Could that possibly be the ass end of a Hurricane in that photo?
Sure looks like it.
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That motor would be cool, but I hate to think what it would take to kick it over.
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Probably not too bad, I have kick started bigger displacement engines than that. It is about twice a Triumph twin and I could start those with my hand.
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1500cc v6? The compression would have to be seriously low to kick that over wouldn't it?
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1500cc v6? The compression would have to be seriously low to kick that over wouldn't it?
It still would have taken quite a punch!
Notice how long (for leverage) the bar is.
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Fitting a tank above that third carburetor would have been a challenge as well.
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I could be wrong here about the idea of how hard it would be to kick-start this 6-cylinder motor, but from my experience years ago, it was the big long-stroke single-cylinder "Thumpers" which were the REAL b*tches to get kick-started back in the day.
And so, I really wonder if this near "square" (bore and stroke being of equal dimensions) WOULD have been all that hard to kick-start, considering that there would be many more chances for a piston to be TDC and ready to fire during the crank's rotation than on a long-stroke Thumper.
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You may be right Dwight. I just remember the inline CBX never had a kicker. I thought it was because you wouldn't be able to kick it anyhow.
You are right about the fewer cylinders the harder to kick. Didn't think of that.
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Well kick starting a motorcycle is child's play to the real men that started Model-T Fords by hand cranking the engines! One backfire while your hand is on this and it's a bad day. 
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Just think how different things would be if Delco hadn't built the electric starter. Sorry ladies, just kidding.  
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Probably not too bad, I have kick started bigger displacement engines than that. It is about twice a Triumph twin and I could start those with my hand.
Yeah, I can see that with ya, with that BIG HAND MUSCLE. Well, one hand anyway....don't wanna guess how that muscle got so big.
Exercise? 
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Probably not too bad, I have kick started bigger displacement engines than that. It is about twice a Triumph twin and I could start those with my hand.
Yeah, I can see that with ya, with that BIG HAND MUSCLE. Well, one hand anyway....don't wanna guess how that muscle got so big.
Exercise?
At least I am having sex with someone I love!
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Probably not too bad, I have kick started bigger displacement engines than that. It is about twice a Triumph twin and I could start those with my hand.
Yeah, I can see that with ya, with that BIG HAND MUSCLE. Well, one hand anyway....don't wanna guess how that muscle got so big.
Exercise?
At least I am having sex with someone I love!
What, WHAT!? Who said anything about sex? Boy, some guys on here just have a one track mind! 
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That motor would be cool, but I hate to think what it would take to kick it over.
With the displacement spread over 6 cylinders, it would be no harder to kick than a 250 single.
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