125-200cc Kick starter options?

Does anyone know of any aftermarket or cross-reference option for a different kick starter for a 2013 CR125. The top part just feels to short to me---I'm looking for something that would give a more "positive purchase", i.e. longer so that my whole boot (size 9) would fill it up.

Not sure but have you owned the bike long? I found it odd at first but am pretty used to it now.

I have gotten used to mine as they don't seem to have a great deal of compression to kick over in the first place. I'm also a size 9 hoof.

LoL...welcome to the world of the quirky Husky kickstarter!!! Don't worry mate, you'll get use to it before long...hey it's a 125, can't be that friggin hard to start

I thought they were too short when I got mine last June... But I got used to it real fast.... They start real easy with very little effort..

You think its a small kick starter with size 9 foot it looks like a toy with size 12 boots lol. I find I use the ball of my foot to start it more ofter then the arch of my foot. I was thinking about adding an inch to the tip of the kick starter.

Use to start a xr100 by hand. Just reach down an spin it over by hand. This past weekend after loosing spark I found myself just rolling over my wr144 by hand. After I get it fixed I will just try to start it by hand. So I may end up with a cast or not.

Is rather short aint it.

I know Kelly was thinking of making a better kicker for the 165's. They still start pretty easy so I think he has tabled that project. You might PM him and see if he wants to revisit that project.

Yeah, I was shocked to see that the compression ratio is only 8.8:1. A lot could be easily gained, I think, from bumping up the compression. Does the WB165 kit use a flat or domed pistion? Do you know the compression ratio for the 165 kit?

Back to the kickstarter----I was thinking of getting an extra OEM kickstarter and having my father weld an extension on it---then the shop owner quoted me something like $130 (only sold as an assembly)---so I said "no thanks", I'll try to get used to it.

In the back of my mind I thought I'd seen that a lever off of a certain year YZ would work but that might be for the GasGas I used to own------that kickstart lever sucked BIG TIME---just a short but for a 250 engine.

The problem isn't really the short lever per se, it's the position of the actual kicker mechanism being up high compared to other bikes...grafting a higher lever, you'll probably end up kneeing yourself

i've been waiting for Kelly to make a new kicker, already broke my stock one, i'm sure it will happen again.

bike starts really easy, but i dont trust the stock unit.

But if the only option available to the Husqvarna owner is the stock unit at $130 we are kinda screwed. If it was just higher quality and wider at the top, it could prove popular, even at $75-$100. Then again, it's not my money being invested to make the unit to begin with so it's easy for me to say that they'd sell well.