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An automobile starter motor (larger cylinder). The smaller object on top is a starter solenoid which controls power to the starter motor and engages the Bendix drive.. A starter (also self-starter, cranking motor, or starter motor) is a device used to rotate (crank) an internal-combustion engine so as to initiate the engine's operation under its own power.
Also, the starting procedure for the Tina required moving a switch on the handlebar to "start" before kick starting the scooter; this activated a governor to keep the engine speed too low to activate the transmission. If the switch was in "drive" on starting the scooter, it would accelerate immediately; this happened to Turner, causing a crash ...
Kick start is a method of starting an internal combustion engine (usually that of a motorcycle) by pushing a ratcheting lever with the rider's foot. Kick start mechanisms were almost universally a part of motorcycle engines before the mid-1970s, and were phased out of production over the next twenty years or so as electric starters became ...
Note there is no single fixed definition of a scooter (also known by the full name motor-scooter), but generally a smaller motorcycle with a step-through frame is considered a scooter, especially if it has a floor for the rider's feet (as opposed to straddling the vehicle like a conventional motorcycle). Other common traits of scooters can ...
At the start of the game, Frankie tells Casey to select a ball with a letter or blend that makes the sound he says. Then, Frankie tells Casey to pass the ball to one of his teammates whose scooter is marked with the second half of a word, and, combined with the letter, blend or digraph on Casey's soccer ball, it forms a word.
Unlike most scooters with enclosed engines, the Topper's engine did not have a cooling fan. [2] [5] [6] It was expected that the low, horizontally mounted engine would be cooled by air passing under the scooter, [2] but some Toppers developed overheating problems. [5] The engine used a reed valve in its induction system. [3]
The GY6 engine design is a four-stroke single-cylinder in a near-horizontal orientation that is used on a number of small motorcycles or scooters made in Taiwan, China, and other southeast Asian countries. It has since become a generic technology.
The Honda CHF50 is a scooter made by Honda and marketed as the Metropolitan in the United States, the Jazz in Canada, the Scoopy in Australia and Asia, and the Crea Scoopy in Japan. Offered in the United States from 2002 to 2009, the Metropolitan was reintroduced in 2013 based on the fuel-injected and air-cooled NCH50 instead of the prior CHF50.