G'day everyone.
Haven't posted for awhile, thought it might be time to let you know of my experience with the electric starter from S. McFarlane. Mine is no. 29 IIRC, fitted about 7 years ago on my '60 Super Rocket.
It was fitted due to crook knees, now 2 years after bilateral total knee replacement I can kickstart most things again. Including a recalcitrant hotrod SR500. The electric starter is still a bonus, especially when my brother is trying to get his Kawasaki W1 fired up, it's good to press the button to show him up.
The kit is a work of art, everything is supplied and fits. Pretty simple job only one hole to be drilled in inner primary about 10mm from memory. Everything else is bolt on using existing mounting points. I used a locally sourced battery, SSB Gel YBX14 possibly, tight fit but works fine. Converted to 12v with DVR2. Have not felt the need to change the dynamo drive but I do put it on the trickle charger when it's parked.
Now the big question, how does it work in normal day to day riding? It works very well and is still doing it's thing 7 years later. A few provisos though , the bike must be tuned well, mine I could start with the kickstart easily but until the maggy was reconditioned and the concentric was replaced with a new monobloc the starter struggled. It doesn't like a wet sumped engine.
Most of my riding is on country roads with a fair bit of dirt road component. The starter sits fairly low (see pic)but hasn't been a problem with clearance, nor dust and rocks thrown up.
So there you go, a good bit of kit that lasts and keeps us riding.
Cheers.