Ok, take a look at this video. It's defenetly worth a look even if you just laugh at it and go on.
http://arizonadirtslingers.com/images/pushbuttonreverse0001.AVIMy wife didn't get me doing it forwards. But the bike was running the other way before.
Ok, now if your done laughing yet on to a more serious note. I got a stator plate with dual lighting coils that was made for a baja1000 race bike. The guy who owned it didn't do the work on the bike, he just owned it so he isn't much help. It is a dubble stacked ignighter and ignition coil. It uses the flywheel and CDI box from a Ducati.
When I first installed it I lined up the timing marks on the plate with the marks on the case. This produced some serious kick back on the kick starter. So I rotated the stator plate counter clock wise. This was even worse and the bike would not run. So I rotated the plate clock wise. The bike starts very easy and runs fairly good here, but as you can see from the video if it misses it starts running in reverse.
No for my question. Does any one here know what the KX500 is supposed to be timed at?
I am pretty sure that it is just a tad bit advanced alowing it to reverse directions. What way do you rotate the plate to retard the timing? I would assume it would be counter clock wise, but that would put me back to where I was getting kick backs.
Open for some suggestions here.
Thanks,
Jody