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Message started by Yunus on 12/02/08 at 06:21:22

Title: Can't start my bike
Post by Yunus on 12/02/08 at 06:21:22

Hi,

This is my first post, I just got my 2001 Savage about a month ago and it's my first bike so forgive the novice mistakes.
My girlfriend took the bike to teach yesterday in the morning and everything went fine, then when she left school it wouldn't start, it only makes a quiet rapid fire click-y noise and wont turn over. I asked her if she turn the key to off and not to park when she left the bike in the morning and she wasn't sure, she didn't know that the park left the light on, so I figured the battery died. I tried jumping it this morning, my bike has a kit that lets you just plug into the battery, you don't have to connect the leads right to the bike. Anyway, I tried that and now it won't even make a click-y noise and the headlight is really dim. Any advice? I'm in a new area with no tools and no other means of transportation, I'm actually in my girlfriend's elementary school computer lab now.

Title: Re: Can't start my bike
Post by verslagen1 on 12/02/08 at 07:18:32

Sounds like you have a dead battery. And if it didn't start with a jump, could be bad. You could take it to some place like autozone and they'll test it for you, but they will tell you it should be charged overnight before the test.
If you have the tool kit on the bike you can take the battery out and take to a service station for a charge.
And you can try push starting, with a completely dead battery might be a little difficult for a newbe. put in 3rd, back it up till you feel a compression stroke, pull the clutch in, run it up to speed and pop the clutch.

Title: Re: Can't start my bike
Post by matt_savage on 12/02/08 at 07:22:30

If all else fails and it wont start w/ conventional means, you can try to push start it. Just get it moving as fast as you can, jump on, put it in gear and pop the clutch and give it some gas. Hopefully it will have enough juice to get it going. It's the same method as push starting a car w/ a manual transmission. HTH

Title: Re: Can't start my bike
Post by Tincanman on 12/02/08 at 07:34:43

I second the dead battery - same thing mine did. just get a new one. its not worth messing with.

Title: Re: Can't start my bike
Post by photojoe on 12/02/08 at 08:14:28

I bought a big crank found here: http://www.bigcrank.com/motorcyclebatteries.mv?c=motorcycle-suzuki-650-L650SAVAGE-ALL-86-02. The only modification I had to do was bend the cable tabs to fit on the terminals. Took a few minutes.

But yeah, I agree that it sounds like a dead battery. With everything that could go wrong, this is a piece of cake. Still sucks, but better than dealing with something like a trashed starter.