Sad story, just not into telling it all.

During a 60 mile round trip, I stopped my bike.  When I got ready to leave, the bike was dead, light was bright, horn would blow, but no starter. After what seemed like a long time, I finally called a buddy with a trailer to come get me.

On the way home, the bike fell over.  Broke the windshield, gas was running out.  Picked the bike up, turned off the gas and went home.  It took two weeks to get a battery, backordered.  I changed the plug, it looked good but since I checked it and it was a couple of years old, while I had it apart, it seemed like the thing to do.  Finally got the battery, still wouldn’t start, turned on the gas and it fired right up.

The windshield was the worst part.  I guess I could have bought a new one, but that was not a real good option.  I had a big piece of Plexiglas, I was going to trace and just cut a new one, but the glass was not as thick as I remembered.  That did not seem like such a good option.





I finally measured, drew, messed and finally just freehanded the curve I needed on top of the windshield and cut it off with my dremel.  If you look close, you can see it is not exactly, the right shape and does not have the right curve.  But it was the best I could do with what I had.  Maybe this will help someone.







On the bright side, the windshield was all that was messed up and I was not on the bike when it fell.

Thinking,....did you ever find out why the starter wouldn't engage ?

And if gas was running out, I have to assume the OEM petcock was changed out for another ? I still like the vacuum petcock for that reeason.

Routy wrote on 04/27/11 at 07:01:54:


Routy, the battery was dead, is my guess.  We even tried to jump it, but that would not work either.  It would crank (starter turning at speed, but bike would not start).  I did not make that clear.  I took the tank off to check spark and it was there, but . . .  

I have a '97 Honda Fourtrax.  On occasion, it will not start for anything.  The plug looks fine and will spark out of the cylinder, but for some reason will not fire under compression.  (a mechanic used that term).  Someone else said something about the resistor in the plug?  Again, I am not sure what that means. All I know is a new plug makes my ATV go.  I figured it might be the same thing for this.  And, since I had the tank off already.

Yep, raptor petcock.

will not fire under compression



Im sure theres a pill for that..

Mike, sorry to hear of your mishap.
Nice to hear that you were unharmed.
Windshield looks great. You did a very
nice job on it.
I am thankful you were not seriously
injured. Hugs, kim

Looks like a good job on rebuilding the shield. Happy that there was no more damage.
I had one fall over on the trailer once...better than off the trailer!
Peace.