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First post, first motorbike. Having ridden peds for about 8 years, I decided to up my game in preparation for doing my full test in a year or two. I bought a good condition yamaha rsx100 which a friend of mine who knows more about mechanics than me checked over. It seems to be in great condition, both mechanically and body wise. However, the one issue it did have was the kickstart lever. The ring of the lever has worn down and thus needs replacing. Being a complete noob. I bought a kickstart lever for an rxs100, believing the parts to be interchangeable. I appear to be wrong. The lever arrived, different shape, and the connector ring is too large to fit the kickstart motor connector.... thingy. So i put out a call to a few scrap yards, got a response. Yes we have a kick start lever for the rs100. (I'm told rs100 and rsx100 are definitely interchangeable. This one arrived, but was exactly the same as the one i had bought before, the rxs one. So now I am utterly confused. When I called the scrap yard, i was told that they had definitely pulled it of an rs. I'm now wondering whether there may be a possibility the kickstart motor connector thingy may have been replaced in the past. Or some such. I have a picture, the longer one on the paper is original, and the two that I bought next to it. Does anyone who owns my model have any idea what may be going on, or at least is it possible to confirm that the longer original one is for an rs? If not, then at least I know where I may be going wrong. Many thanks for any help in advance!

First post, first motorbike. Having ridden peds for about 8 years, I decided to up my game in preparation for doing my full test in a year or two. I bought a good condition yamaha rsx100 which a friend of mine who knows more about mechanics than me checked over. It seems to be in great condition, both mechanically and body wise. However, the one issue it did have was the kickstart lever. The ring of the lever has worn down and thus needs replacing. Being a complete noob. I bought a kickstart lever for an rxs100, believing the parts to be interchangeable. I appear to be wrong. The lever arrived, different shape, and the connector ring is too large to fit the kickstart motor connector.... thingy. So i put out a call to a few scrap yards, got a response. Yes we have a kick start lever for the rs100. (I'm told rs100 and rsx100 are definitely interchangeable. This one arrived, but was exactly the same as the one i had bought before, the rxs one. So now I am utterly confused. When I called the scrap yard, i was told that they had definitely pulled it of an rs. I'm now wondering whether there may be a possibility the kickstart motor connector thingy may have been replaced in the past. Or some such. I have a picture, the longer one on the paper is original, and the two that I bought next to it. Does anyone who owns my model have any idea what may be going on, or at least is it possible to confirm that the longer original one is for an rs? If not, then at least I know where I may be going wrong. Many thanks for any help in advance!