The hilarity was that it had both electric and kick start options. But, the electric was too anemic to work properly, and it usually kicked over on the first try. But, you had to use the choke, even half-warm, as She was cold blooded. Had a -2 rear sprocket for better acceleration, but it was buzzy as hell above 65Mph. Occasionally the headlight also was intermittent due to a corroded contact in the starter switch, but I eventually fixed that.