WD wrote on 07/10/13 at 15:37:11:Battery, if you have the stock wet cell, check the fluid levels. Summers in Dixie are tough on old fashioned batteries.
Once it is topped off, fluid and charge, and passes a load test, check the safeties.
1. Kickstand switch is notorious for giving out with no warning signs. Unhook the clip from the switch, jumper bike side connector box with a paperclip, if the bike starts, switch failed. Replace or bypass.
2. Clutch switch. See above.
3. Kill switch. Been seeing spiders in the garage? Open up the switch box, remove the egg casing... Been there... more than once... very annoying. Deleted the switch boxes (for looks more than anything else)...
Once again, if it was a switch failure, would the starter not engage? I hear a clunk when hit the switch.
It is supposedly a AMG gel battery (new ha ha). I'm inclined to believe it is the battery, yet how long would a battery tender take to recharge it? The light is green, but soon as I try to crank it goes to red.