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DKW SB 200 1938 Smoky cold start on first kick. — RedlineArchive
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DKW SB 200 1938 Smoky cold start on first kick.

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Starting A DWK SB 200. Ignition is turned on so the ignition light is illuminated. Fuel is turned on and the carb is primed with the tickler. Set the choke for a cold start. Holding the decompression lever I turn the bike over with two kicks then release the lever and give the bike the starting kick. This was completed on a 1938 SB 200 however the process will also be similar on SB 250, SB 350 and SB 500 as well as models of DKW NZ, RT and KS. Please visit out website http://dkwmotorrader.com/ for more information.

About DKW

DKW was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and thus became an ancestor of the modern-day Audi company. In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That year he attempted to produce a steam-power car; German: Dampfkraftwagen, from which the acronym DKW is derived. That steam car was unsuccessful, and in 1919 he made toy two-stroke engines under the nam...

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