it will kick easy if its tuned good, wont even need a hil
. get to top dead center where you feel the compression, pull in lever and get past tdc (you will learn the sweet spot on how far past) let up the kicker and kick it. usually a few slow kicks through going past tdc twice or so, find the sweet spot turn off choke, nice full kick from the top. it
wont start it if your scared of it either, the closer you are to the sweet spot the easier it will be to kick, it should only kick back if you are way off on your starting point of your kick or has an issue like timing off or something, if the engine is warm already it might be easier to learn to kickstart though....actually the only time i ever had a kickback is when the flywheel nut came loose and cut the woodruff key in half and stalled and it was when trying to restart it....10 kicks and 2nd kickback i started walking home, with a limp of course :bounce3: i have e-start with auto decompressor not a secondary decomressor lever though. still same procedure but maybe thats why it doesnt kick back? either way if your scared it wont kick start, thats a rule of the universe you know.....
i think 5-8 hours of freind labor would be a good price for it, hopfully you can get some parts cheap enough to get it going and havr a nice bike, the main downside considered by most to the pre 1997 would be the lack of an oil pump, but still loved by many, and you wont have trouble burrying the guy on the yamaha 80 with roost