Is it safe to jump start a motorbike from a car ?

[marco 125]

how would you go about doing this ? the battery on my bike is dead , but iv heard this is a good way to charge the battery??

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Bump starting a bike is where you push it along and release the clutch to force the engine to turn over from you pushing it.
Unless you're a reasonably skilled stuntman, I expect this is quite a dangerous method!

It should be fine to jump start a bike from a car battery without the car running. This is where you connect electric cables between the too.
It's possible it could cause damage if the car is running. However, as bike's need a good chunk less starting current, you shouldn't need the car running to keep the battery topped up/give it a bit of extra kick as you might for a car.

[marco 125]

[Ericck]

You'll need a set of jump leads.

Attach leads to the car battery and to your bike battery.

Then start the bike as normal (not in gear), bike will use
power from car battery to turn bike over.
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[Polarbear]

connect car battery +ve to bike battery +ve with the red lead (don't let it touch the frame anywhere)

connect car battery -ve to bike battery -ve with the black lead.

Press starter button.

When running, take off the leads (do NOT let them touch the vehicle wile dissconnecting)
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Get some jump leads.

Make sure the ignition is off.
Attach the positive lead to both batteries. Then the negative. (Doing it this way around means less sparks etc.)

Start the bike as normal (so, in neutral etc).

Remove the negative lead, then the positive.

[marco 125]

thanks for the help , much appreciated
thanks

[Polarbear]

theres a million videos out there, google it. The principles the same for any vehicle.
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[marco 125]

[whitedevil]

Or just go to aldi or lidl and buy their £14 battery charger.
Good bit of kit for the price.
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[whitedevil]

You dont need to start the car, the battery will have power in it regardless.
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[Dilyan]

This might help after:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=238197
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Don't start the car - you shouldn't need to and it's possible it will damage the bike, though I've never seen it happen myself.

[wilz1234]

If you try starting it with the car running, you run the risk of burning out the alternator of the car.

[Tarmacsurfer]

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I should add that doing it with a tow rope is cheating - done that enough times myself (and with other bikes etc).

I was thinking standing in the door/window/rear/bonnet of a car while holding the bike, getting a good lick up, then jumping from the 4 wheeler to the 2, landing on it and kicking it in to gear .
To be fair, there is, on consideration, a lot of easier and less dangerous ways for the same situation - however less spectacular too .

Have attempted it holding on by hand to another bike/rider, but not a car. However all have been from an already seated position.

[Marcbrown46]

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[Rogerborg]

[pinkyfloyd]

I erm. Um. Started my bike from one of these once.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3543/3781112389_1387f6868d.jpg

Bike fired up instantly.
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[Polarbear]

[Edgar Jessop]

I've jump started quite a few cars and vans over the years. The hardest are diesels, because it requires a good few amps going through the starter motor to turn them over. If you try and do that from a stationary car you probably won't get enough current to turn it over. With the engine at idle it may just stall as the load comes on. That's why they say rev the engine up to a fast idle.

To start a little engine like a bike from a big battery like you'd find on a car or van I'm sure you could just do it on static battery, ie no need to run the other engine.

Like the man says the most important thing is to connect +ve to +ve and -ve to -ve NOT the other way round, unless you like trying to pull red-hot copper wires off the terminals before the battery catches fire
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