Hi. It may be your technique that is wrong…..For starters (couldn’t resist the pun), don’t have the bike on its stand when using the kickstart; and try and get out of the usual British bike style of kickstarting . Stand astride the bike and kick backwards. I know it’s awkward at first, being a long way back, but it really does avoid “bottoming” the mechanism. Hope this helps, and let us know how you get on.
