It has no electric starter. Its what we call a "kicker". And sometimes this can be a mess when you are exhaustet somewhere out in the woods and the f***ing bastard wont start and you kick until you puke your lungs out. But this belongs to that bike and if it runs you forget all the bad things. It is powerful, well not as a 450 KTM, but enough for road and offroad. And it does not require an oil change every 10 hours like modern competition bikes.