What would you check first??

[Hook#3287]

So, I got home last night around 11:00 pm from Georgia.  17 hours on the interstate.   Unloading everything today and when I got the bike off the trailer, I turned the key, pulled in the clutch, pushed the enrichment button down, then hit the starter switch.   

She turned over just fine, buts that's ALL. She won't start, just turns over.

Remembered she was low on gas, but not on reserve.   Opened the cap and could hear some swishing around in there.  Put it on reserve and tried starting again.

Same.  Turned over real good but won't fire.  ???

Tried it many times with same results and finally the battery is going down. ??? ???

I won't have time to look at her till the week end.

A Honda service manager told me 35+ years ago, "If it won't start, it's either spark or gas".

So, where would you look first??

[custom1]

Kill switch!   

[Chrisj CMA]

Wont turn over if the kill switch is in "kill"

Its a weak battery!

[old2soon]

Wont turn over if the kill switch is in "kill"

Its a weak battery!

+1  RIDE SAFE.

[custom1]

Darn it.


Thought I had it.


You guys are probably right. Plus, maybe it got some extra gas in the cylinders from all that bouncing around and was flooded even before you hit the choke. Weak battery and wet plugs = no spark. Take a plug out and see if it is wet.

[Mallett]

Maybe your gurl is just pissed about being hauled on a trailer for 17 hours...

[F6BANGER]

I would also say BATTERY.

17 hrs? You could've put 1000 miles on her......

[Mallett]

I would also say BATTERY.

17 hrs? You could've put 1000 miles on her......

+1   been there & done that in 17 hours...Oh, what a ride...

[YoungPUP]

Bouncing around on a trailer may have killed a cell in the battery. Start there.

[fudgie]

Maybe your gurl is just pissed about being hauled on a trailer for 17 hours...

   

[fudgie]

I say the battery also.

I rode mine hard from central NE thru KS, MO, Il and back to NE Ind on the way home from Sturgis. 860+ miles in 18 hrs. The next morning she did not want to start. Crank and cranked. Thought I rode her way to hard. 2 days later she was fine.

Charge the batt and see. If not wait a day or so and start it.

[Hook#3287]

Okay, had the time today and got her going.

I can't say for sure, because I had to swap out the battery cause I ran it down, but I feel it was the fuel.
Different battery and she started up after 2/10-15 second hits on the starter.
 
A combination of not enough gas in the tank, not switching it to reserve right off and 17 hours of bouncing around on the Interstate must of cleaned all the gas out of the carbs somehow.

No gas in the carbs when I first tried to start, then running the battery to low to start.

Actually it was longer, the trip from FL to GA was 7 hrs, then 3 days sitting on the trailer in GA, then 17 hrs to MA.  You think she was pissed  at me?  I would have been.

First time this happened.  I've trailed her to GA from MA before, twice, trailed to FL from GA once and from GA to MA once without any starting issues.

Just glad she's running again, not that we're gonna have the weather to ride her for a while, but glad anyways.

17 hrs? You could've put 1000 miles on her......

I put over 2.5K on her in Feb in both FL & GA,TN,NC  but couldn't get all the stuff I needed to bring with me, on her.  Heck, I almost didn't have enough room in my 1 ton, 4 door pick-up, including the tool box and 8' bed.

I have no problem trailering my bike to go south.  I love riding, but I ain't sitting on her for 17 hours just to say I can.  Much more comfortable in the truck, plus I always get a couple of audio books which makes the time fly and keeps me awake.

On the bike at 70-75mpg, I'm gonna get maybe 30mpg.  That's a stop every 120 miles or so or about 8 stops for 1K miles.  I can do 1K miles with just 2 stops in the truck.

[Farther]

I love riding, but I ain't sitting on her for 17 hours just to say I can.  Much more comfortable in the truck, plus I always get a couple of audio books which makes the time fly and keeps me awake.

No need to get defensive, just accept that you are a pussy and be done with it!  

[Hook#3287]

Meow!

[Mallett]

I love riding, but I ain't sitting on her for 17 hours just to say I can.  Much more comfortable in the truck, plus I always get a couple of audio books which makes the time fly and keeps me awake.

No need to get defensive, just accept that you are a pussy and be done with it!  

+1....LOL....you know we are just picking, Hook.

[Hook#3287]

+1....LOL....you know we are just picking, Hook.

No problembo!

I'm good with my masculinity.  And to prove it, let me say, I don't care what anyone thinks. 

[Mallett]

+1....LOL....you know we are just picking, Hook.

No problembo!

I'm good with my masculinity.  And to prove it, let me say, I don't care what anyone thinks. 

+1   

[HayHauler]

I love riding, but I ain't sitting on her for 17 hours just to say I can.  Much more comfortable in the truck, plus I always get a couple of audio books which makes the time fly and keeps me awake.

No need to get defensive, just accept that you are a pussy and be done with it!  

That's a good one Farther.   Laughed out loud.  Wife thinks I'm looney.  Again, who cares?

Hay
Jimmyt