05-10-2012, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by BulgarianMike
 i want that tripple
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I got the bike pretty much all assembled today minus the lighting and some small parts. I went to start it and the battery was flat
So I put the charger on, and went to start again... nothing... WTF, the button wasn't doing anything at all? What the hell is going on here??? So I spend the next half an hour scratching my head over it. I even call my dad over to see if he can figure anything out... he is a great mechanic and usually catches the stuff I miss
I was thinking it was one of the kickstand or clutch switches. Then, on a whim I plug in the tail light to see if there is any power getting to the system at all, the console is working but maybe something else is up? So I plug in the tail light and nothing... OK, this is really starting to piss me off! So I pull the fuse and sure enough it's burnt out! Now how did that happen, it was fine when I took the bike apart? New fuse and the light comes right on, even the brake lights work... But not the front brake! So while I'm scratching my head, dad reaches over and starts pressing the start button. The brake light flickers a couple times and the fuse blows! What the? OHHH! Turns out I had the connector for the right side controls plugged into the wrong connector in the harness! What is that other connector even for?There's 45 minutes down the drain! Well, let's see if it starts now. So I hit the button and the starter works, but the bike doesn't want to start... After maybe 10 seconds of cranking it starts to fire but dies quickly. A few more seconds and a little blipage of the throttle and I barely get it running, but it keeps killing. It's behaving really strange, like if the mix wasn't right or something...
I have a theory though. I think it may be the exhaust butterfly valve. When I got the bike, you'll notice in the first pic it had a really poorly installed H1R exhaust that was pretty messed up. I got a stock silencer off ebay for pretty cheap and that's what's on it now. When I turn the key on, it just sits there and twitches without rotating. If I give it some assistance on the exhaust valve, it opens and then closes like it should. It's like it sin't strong enough to open the valve, but the valve doesn't seem to be stuck or stiff or anything, and the cables moved freely when I installed it... It also twitches when I crank the engine. I think it may be blocking off the flow too much for it to want to start. It's really quiet but I've never heard it with the stock silencer before so I don't know.
Any Ideas???