{"id":1867,"date":"2025-10-25T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:54:11","slug":"putting-a-kickstarter-on-the-tw200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Putting a kickstarter on the TW200"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I bought a motorcycle.\u00a0 I got bored.\u00a0 Decided I wanted to learn how to ride a motorcycle.\u00a0 Thanks autism!<\/p>\n

The Yamaha TW200 is kind of a weird motorcycle today.\u00a0 It’s literally a relic of the past, a platform that hasn’t changed much since it was introduced in 1987.\u00a0 1988 they changed it from using an AC electrical system to a DC system.\u00a0 Little things changed here and there but it’s mostly been the same.\u00a0 As a side note, if anyone has an 89 they’d like to donate the color scheme is awesome.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was growing up in the 90s, but motorcycles should have a kickstarter.\u00a0 And Yamaha apparently agreed up until the 2001 model year release.\u00a0 What’s interesting is the 20 years later, the parts from a 2000 drop right into the 2020. Pictured below is the parts list for the kickstarter.<\/p>\n

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And here’s a PDF of all the pictures and things I found<\/a> on various places online that helped when I installed mine. As a side note, the clutch springs are torqued to I believe 6 ft lbs, which is a really low number. I highly recommend not using a standard torque wrench and instead using a torque screwdriver<\/a>. Mine is the older, uh, analog version but the point still stands. Snapping a screw in a $366 (tonight, at rocky mountain atv) clutch basket sucks. New tool day always rocks, right?<\/p>\n

Not that I recommend using facebook, but if you’re into that kind of masochism then there’s a great little group<\/a> over there dedicated to the TW200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I bought a motorcycle.\u00a0 I got bored.\u00a0 Decided I wanted to learn how to ride a motorcycle.\u00a0 Thanks autism! The Yamaha TW200 is kind of a weird motorcycle today.\u00a0 It’s literally a relic of the past, a platform that hasn’t changed much since it was introduced in 1987.\u00a0 1988 they changed it from using… <\/p>\n

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