Let me tell you a little bump start story, there was a guy here that had an older Suzuki Intruder that the starter was bad so he would bump start it each time he wanted to ride. So he wouldn't look bad to the babes, when he would leave a bar he would lean on his bike and have a smoke till nobody was looking then take off running and bump start it. One night some of the guys he hung out with took the plug wires off his bike, he'd take off running and jump on it and it would just sputter to a stop. Everyone was hiding behind their cars watching him run with that bike down the street and I kid you not, he pushed that bike for over a quarter mile. We laughed our asses off as he run about 20 yards and jump, then he'd huff and puff and hit his cig then take off again. OK, one more, there was a guy where I used to work that had a Harley. His shifter was a pair of vise grips with a bolt welded to them for a tab to shift with and his front brake lever was also a set of vise grips, two of us would help him bump start that thing about everyday for two weeks until he could get a battery on payday.