125-200cc Is your 144 hard starting?

I have a 26 hour 2013 CR144, and it's a 12-20 kick starter when cold. I've been into bikes and tuning for a few decades, so I have some bit of confidence my jetting is on point. Just curious if the bike in general has this atribute... Easy starter once warm.

With all my prior bikes, once I had the jetting sorted for the warmer majority of the year, I'd step up a size on the pilot once they became hard to start once the weather turned cold. On this bike, from a performance standpoint, the carboration is great, but at no point in the weather year is the cold start an easy task...

Your thoughts are appriciated.

I'm having a similiar problem, but with a 165. I'm thinking its a crap plug as the spark is a bit intermittent/weak. Have you checked your spark?

mines(13 wr125) the same when cold, 1 kick when hot! think if it doesnt fire in first or second kick when cold they flood real easy. i was thinking about it the other day so tried it before a ride thursday. when i didnt catch it the first or second kick cold(choke on) i tried it with throttle closed(i know generally youd have it wide open to fire up when flooded but...) & hey presto! dont ask me why but it works. maybe too rich a pilot?

my 150 now with a 30 pilot starts 2 - 5 kick cold, then usually 1st kick when warm.
If its been two weeks or more since the last ride I always drain the float bowl otherwise it can be a pain to start.
With a pilot above 40 it was 10 - 15 kicks when cold.

Nope, fires right up cold. Good idea about draining the carb as this gas we have now is short lived in small spaces like the bowl. I shut mine off at the end of each race and let it run out.
I have a dead engine start and its rare to kick it twice.

I'm on a 30/470, RM needle, RB bored carb, Scalvini pipe. I jet for performance, not spooge. That said, It makes decent spooge, but I think that's an effect of having a white rear fender more than anything. Doesn't run down the silencer or anything.

Starts super easy warm. The cold start is always a bit alarming if I'm on a far away road trip. Every bike I've owned prior was a 1-3 kicker cold....