Kick Start is a British motorcycle trials game show that aired on BBC1 from 6 August 1979 to 17 August 1992.
Riders on off-road motorcycles were required to run over obstacles such as logs, oil drums, rockeries, water troughs, walls, steep banking, cliff-faces and often a VW Beetle.
Time penalties were incurred for putting a foot on the ground while tackling an obstacle or touching or knocking over specified parts of an obstacle (such as the "bunny hop").
A video-game inspired by the series called Kikstart was released for the Commodore 64 in 1985 by Mastertronic.
According to the game's programmer, Shaun Southern, "The C64 version's name at least, was a shameless rip-off of the TV series.