Tropical Savage wrote on 04/21/09 at 09:41:16:youzguyz wrote on 04/21/09 at 09:08:18:You asked if it jammed by itself. I doubt it. When did it start this behavior? Did you just try to start it? and the starter would not stop spinning? I have a hard time believing you were just standing there and it started spinning on it's own!
That's why I started the thread as "Should I call TAPS?". Sounds unbelievable but there was not anybody close to the bike when the starter ran.
I use the bike daily and excluding the petcock problem and the oil leak, I did not notice anything wrong with it before.
Andre
Wow.. that is weird!! (I don't know what TAPS is, besides what they play on a bugle in the military. I don't get out much, except to ride).
Your solenoid might still be good. Test it like I said before. If it shows open, then it can be put back in service. Then it becomes a question of what made the control circuit activate the solenoid. That gets a lot more complicated.