starter motor works fine in my 300 pack a bit of grease in there and its fine never use the kick starter lucky because my kick don t work (leg)best thing i brought for it is a progressive spring from techknics helped the pds heaps .also if you smash the pipe don t put an fmf narly pipe on it they don t work on the ktm s i just put the standard pipe back on mine goes a shitload better should have done it ages ago