Hi all, I'm hoping 1 of you will have the answer to my problem. I lay my bike up for the winter but start her regularly. I've just been out to my garage to start her up. Ignition on as normal, dash lights up, neutral and oil lights on, clocks sweep and fuel pump hums. Press the starter button and she turns over 4 or 5 times then nothing. Dash goes out starter motor shuts down. Dead. Now when I switch ignition on there's nothing. No lights including neutral and oil, no fuel pump and no sweep of needles untill I switch the ignition off. The clock needles then do their sweep.
I have been through all the fuses including the main 30amp fuse and all are ok. Anyone got any ideas?
Gidday Oldgit, been ages since you came to visit (2018!)
Do you have a multimeter? If not, invest in a reasonable one, it can help troubleshoot many problems.
How is your battery? If you've been going out & starting it during the winter, chances are you've not let it run long enough to charge the battery back up & it's now too low to start the bike. Solution, charge it then test it, if it's ok, use it, else replace battery & go from there.
As Col says, sounds as flat as a witch's tit to me.
You can't beat a good maintenance charger, I have an Optimate (there are others) monitors and keeps your battery at a nice level.
D.D.
Bit late to say it, but the worst thing you can do when you lay your bike up for winter is to keep regularly starting it, I could tell you why, but now is not the time.
Given you've been doing this though, I would say that your battery is either pretty discharged or is on the way out and needs replacing.
What barmy said
Nothing worse than running it for 10 mins every now and then in the winter .
A good 50+ miles ride is much better.
Anyway that said good luck finding the problem and hopefully all good again shortly . :cheers: