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.

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

I bought a big crank found here: http://www.bigcrank.com/motorcyclebatteries.mv?c=motorcycle-suzuki-650-L650SA.... 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.