dirt bike hard to start?

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John

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i have an 08 yamaha ttr 125 dirt bike and the electric starter sucks so i normally kick it and it usually takes only about three kicks when not hot. but yesterday and today both when i tried starting it, it took about fourty kicks each time. any ideas of what could be causeing this? thanks
 
first i would just go through the bike and change the oil, air filter, spark plug.. and then try starting it.. if it still gives you trouble:
once you get it started turn the gas petcock off and let the bike run out of gas in the carb.. cuz there may be a little crap in there.. and if it still is giving you problems bring it to a yamaha dealer cuz they normally stand behind there bikes and will fix it for cheep.. it could be something like a broken needle valve in the carb which was like a $125 fix on most bikes
 
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