Morning kickstart: The scene behind starting bikes in the morning

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Created on:

12 Dec 2023

Last Updated on:

01 Sep 2024

Rev up Your Morning: Mastering Bike Kickstart Rituals for a Smooth Ride

Most Indian households tend to own at least one bike these days. Moreover, with the easy accessibility of Zurich Kotak Bike insurance, the scene is very promising. This is essential as you must mandatorily maintain a valid two-wheeler insurance policy if you own a bike. However, the morning bike start procedure seems to be quite disturbing for most bikers. This article will efficiently provide morning riding tips to ensure a smooth start.

Two-wheeler morning routine

Most bikes possess auto-start or kick-start features. Kick-start effectively prompts the attached crankshaft to rotate, pushing the piston against the top piston head in turn, thus generating high friction. It generates pressure and the mixture of air and fuel that gets pumped through the attached valves eventually ignites.

This triggers the procedure of engine warm-up which springs to life thus starting the two-wheeler. Kick-starting ensures the proper balance of air and fuel within the engine motor maintaining adequate pressure for starting the idle engine.

To ensure smooth starting, the carburation system utilises a choke. However, once the engine starts, the function of the choke is over.

Reasons for morning kick-starting

The cool night temperatures, especially during the winter months, tend the fuel to get stuck into the cylinder, making it hard to start. Due to the absence of enough friction, the starter needs an additional pull to draw power from the battery, thus imposing an enhanced pressure. Moreover, the night’s rest even makes the battery dormant, making the issue all the more difficult.

All the liquids tend to settle down at the bottom of the cylinder, if the two-wheeler sits idle for long hours, thus making the upper sections of the gears dry. If you try to move your bike slightly, it aids in greasing up the gears well. Moreover, it also helps you to start your bike with comparatively less effort and less fuel consumption.

You must allow your bike engine to warm up well before you start riding it. It is one of the most crucial bike maintenance tips.

Necessity of morning kick-start

The advanced carburation and fuel injection systems have tended to alter the bike starting scenario to a significant extent. Nowadays, these advanced fuel injection systems efficiently handle the issue through enhanced ECU programming.

  • The current fuel injection systems ideally maintain the fuel-air ratio as 14.7 to 1 normally, automatically using the necessary information from several sensors installed within.

  • The advanced fuel injection system sprays the necessary amount of fuel within the engine for a necessary duration, maintaining the ideal pressure, considering the current engine status, using several sensors.

  • During the low morning temperatures requiring enhanced fuel consumption, this advanced fuel injection system adjusts the settings automatically, ensuring a smooth bike riding experience for the rider by simply operating the auto start button, without much hassle.

Advanced FI technology-induced bikes, do not necessarily require kick-starting. Moreover, the advanced batteries also do not easily become dormant. Although affording bikes with such advanced features may cost you a little fortune with raised vehicle costs as well as enhanced bike insurance costs, it will aid you significantly, especially in the long run.

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