Hey everyone! So I'm new to motorcycling, its something I've always wanted to do, so I finally took the rider course and got my license. I've since bought a beautiful yellow '86 Savage and have been trying to build confidence riding around.
I have a problem though. After getting her home Thursday afternoon, I couldn't start her up this morning.
Let me give you some specifics.
I picked her up from the dealership, which is about 15 or 20 miles from here. She's had one previous owner who apparently rode her a lot but decided he wanted a bigger bike. The dealer did the state inspection, handed me the keys and off I rode. About a mile and a half from the dealer, I stalled her out at a light and couldn't get her started back up. No engine turnover when I hit the starter, no lights, no power at all. Hitched a ride back to the dealer and got them to tow her back to their shop. After more than an hour of mucking about with it, they said they couldn't see anything obviously wrong with it, but they cleaned the connections and got her started. The previous owner had installed some sort of charger for a Garmin GPS or something, which I had them remove.
So I rode her home, no problems. It was fun, exhilarating, a little scary and I was left a tad sore from my first "long" ride. Two days went by where I didn't have a chance to ride, and then comes this morning. I put the key in, pull out the choke,. hit the cut-off switch (neutral light comes on, so that's good so far), and hit the starter. She tries to turn over a couple times, but it doesn't sound like its going to happen so I lay off. I think , "ah! I probably need to adjust the fuel setting," so I toggled it over to "pri" and let it sit before trying again with the same result. So now I'm thinking I should perhaps adjust the choke setting a little, but when I hit the starter this time, I get nothing. I notice that the neutral light is no longer illuminated and I can' get the turn signals or anything else to light up.
This seems to be the same thing that happened outside the dealership. Any thoughts on this? Bad battery, perhaps? I'm much more technical than mechanical. If it were a computer I'd have had it apart on the floor and fixed in four hours, but these machines with moving parts and lubrication and belts and gears have me somewhat intimidated. I guess that's also why I figured I'd try a friendly group online before walking a block down to where the local Harley riders hang out and ask if any of them know how to fix a Suzuki