How to Push Start a Ducati Monster 696

[bigiain]

i've done it on 3rd/4th gear...am i doing something wrong?

Nope.

I find 3rd easier on my M750. 2nd usually needs a little bit of a bounce on the seat to get enough traction - 3rd works without bouncing on the seat and you don't need to be going any faster than a vigorous "seated waddle" to get it to start.

big (my significantly shortened gearing may be affecting that too, I've got 14/43 instead of 15/41)

[LowThudd]

What ever you do don't do it like this.

How NOT to pop the clutch on a motorcycle

[DarkMonster620]

What ever you do don't do it like this.
How NOT to pop the clutch on a motorcycle

is this jackass 3?

[Adamm0621]

Do you have to be riding the bike or are you pushing it from the side?  If you're pushing it, do you just pull the clutch back in once the engine kicks over?  I've never push started a bike before.

[Raux]

Do you have to be riding the bike or are you pushing it from the side?  If you're pushing it, do you just pull the clutch back in once the engine kicks over?  I've never push started a bike before.

easy riding it down a hill or having a friend push.

[Adamm0621]

Good to know.

[LowThudd]

Down a driveway worked for me. I just power walked it out and popped it.

[Popeye the Sailor]

Do you have to be riding the bike or are you pushing it from the side?  If you're pushing it, do you just pull the clutch back in once the engine kicks over?  I've never push started a bike before.

I've done it from the side and from on it, depending on location.

Obviously, it's easiest if you can be on the bike.

[CamelToeJockey]

Thank you for posting this thread.  I was stuck in my office garage with a dead starter and/or battery.  I remembered this thread, tried it, and it started with no problem. I wasn't digging the idea of leaving my bike downtown.  Thank you again

Someone help me understand how bump-starting could work with a dead battery, given the electric fuel pump, electric fuel injection, electronic ignition, and so on...?

[DesmoReynoso]

I've done countless times on carburated enduro bikes without a problem and  twice on the 696 late at night when the bike has been sitting in the cold and had trouble starting (had somebody give me a push and got it running although it felt strange, then recently this happened again and there was a guy who owns a 998 and he helped get it started just by playing a little bit with the throttle and the cold starter little by little until it started and stayed running.
He said it was bad to push start fuel injected motorcycles as the oil is also controlled electronically and once you've tried to start it there will be a lot of gas and you'll startup the engine without enough oil and  cause damage. Any thruth to this? It does make sense to me because both times I pushstarted it at first it smelled like unburnt fuel and he says it happens a lot to Ducatis and just start it by playing with the throttle and cold starter and not by pushstarting.

What do you guys think? Any similar experiences? Advice?
   

[DesmoReynoso]

Someone help me understand how bump-starting could work with a dead battery, given the electric fuel pump, electric fuel injection, electronic ignition, and so on...?

It doesn't, if the battery is completely dead or can't hold a charge you're not able to pushstart it. The headlight won't even come on when you bump the clutch if the battery is completely dead.

[LowThudd]

I've done countless times on carburated enduro bikes without a problem and  twice on the 696 late at night when the bike has been sitting in the cold and had trouble starting (had somebody give me a push and got it running although it felt strange, then recently this happened again and there was a guy who owns a 998 and he helped get it started just by playing a little bit with the throttle and the cold starter little by little until it started and stayed running.
He said it was bad to push start fuel injected motorcycles as the oil is also controlled electronically and once you've tried to start it there will be a lot of gas and you'll startup the engine without enough oil and  cause damage. Any thruth to this? It does make sense to me because both times I pushstarted it at first it smelled like unburnt fuel and he says it happens a lot to Ducatis and just start it by playing with the throttle and cold starter and not by pushstarting.

What do you guys think? Any similar experiences? Advice?
   

I don't see how the oil is controlled electronically. That would be bad in any aplication. All ducs(and all ICE engines in general AFAIK) have mechanical pumps. I have never heard of an electronic oil pump in my life, and wouldn't want one either if it did exist. As for the gas, it doesn't matter if its carbed or ie, it is still going to flow a bit of fuel at start up(especially push starting). In fact I believe a carbed bike is far more likely to flod than ie.