I had a shovel wide glide once and my routine for starting was:
Ignition off, open fuel tap, two full throttle squirts to get some juice in the intakes, hold throttle open and give two full kicks, close throttle and get pistons to the top of compression, (if cold, choke full on (S&S carb)) ignition on.
Funny thing is, if I had things just right, it would fire up when I turned the ignition on and people would just stand there and wonder how I did it. More than not though, one kick with the ignition on and she'd start every time, cold or not.
Only problem with the shovel was bits used to fall off all the time and I couldn't feel my hands feet or backside after 100 miles.