SV650 won't start - wont even bump.

_Troy_ · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Karma :

Evening all. Now this is not for my bike, its my brothers, and he's is currently stranded at work with a non working bike.

He says he tries to start it and it just makes a ticking noise from the below location. There is power in the battery, and the longer he holds down the starter, the tachometer needle starts to climb.m

He's tried bump starting it, and after many many many tries, got it to run for 1 or 2 seconds.

So, any ideas? Electrical problem I presume, but that's an assumption from the comfort of my couch.

Problem is he needs this bike for his commute. He lives nowhere near a train station, and travels down the motorway to work. He could have borrowed mine, but we don't live in the same county.

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kiddakidda · Spanner Monkey Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Karma :

Well that right there is your solenoid and this will normally make a clicking sound if the battery is low or the solenoid is faulty.

If it bumps starts then the starter solenoid wouldn't prevent it from running once it had started.

Is there any fault codes displayed? Has it been dropped recently?

Could be the Tilt sensor stopping it from running.
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Paris2 · Nearly there... Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Karma :

Right I'm home (talking about my bike)

The bike jumped perfectly fine, and rode fine all the way home.

It did something similar yesterday, when pressing the starter button nothing happened (as if the killswitch was on) but then upon rocking and bouncing the bike slightly it started to start and fired.

Any ideas, dodgy connection somewhere?
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P.addy · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

Battery and earth points.

Clean up the solenoid.

Paris2 · Nearly there... Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Karma :

Ill give it a good going over at the weekend.

Will just limp through the rest of the week Laughing

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Copycat73 · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jan 2013 Karma :

if cleanin the solenoid connections don`t work have a look at the brushes in the starter motor.
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P.addy · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

kiddakidda · Spanner Monkey Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Karma :

So you rocked it and it started?

I'm not saying it is but it's worth checking your tilt sensor as previously advised.

kiddakidda · Spanner Monkey Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Karma :

Did you sort it Mucka?

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sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

Try cleaning/drying the start switch similar problem i had with the divvy Thumbs Up

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woll · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 May 2010 Karma :

Sounds just like my mates old sv when the battery died. After a lot of pratting around it would bump start. If he held the start button the dials would do strange things. And it wouldn't run for very long at all.
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