Kick start woes

Zippo

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I was trying to kickstart my bike yesterday when the kickstart broke and sent my leg into the ground at full force. Once I got out of urgent care I realized how the kickstart broke. This may be a dumb question but am I putting too much force into kicking the bike over? I have an xs650 that takes quite a bit of force to kick over and I'm using the same to kick this bike. Part of me wants to just wire in the starter. I don't have any of the original gauges or anything so how hard would that be? can I get some suggestions for aftermarket controls?
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