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sergi75

sergi75

Joined Mar 2008
616 Posts | 0+
SW LONDON
Hi guys,

Last night I picked up my italian beauty . In London was cold and wet but the emotion :inlove of having my first ride overrate all the hassles. This morning, when I fired the bike up, it started but immediately turned off. After that, it would not start :eek: and it took me a good 5 minuts trying with open throttle unitl it came back to live again . I didn't use the chock, what was I doing wrong? Any suggestions from the exprienced guys here?

Thx

Sergi
 
Yo bro... Did you give the throttle a twist as you turned it over?? You possibly flooded it.. I did this the first couple of times. If it happens again, close the choke and try again.
No longer then a four second burst each time until it starts to fart, or you will flatten your battery, blow up your starter, melt your solenoid, cook your loom, open up a gateway to hell, vote labour.....:angry
 
I chose not to open that gateaway!! I will try then with no throttle at all and then moment it fires up, then give some choke. I need to master this before I **** something up. Cheers
 
Firstly buy an Optimate III SP and keep it hooked up at all times. The battery needs to be in tip top condition. When starting from cold, firstly open the fast idle lever ( choke ) but do NOT touch the throttle. If it doesn't start first time as it should do, then it could be the battery is on it's way out or it need new spark plugs
 
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All clear now. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I don't have power available so will not be able to hook the battery to the optimaser on a daily basis. I do use the bike every day to go to work, around 1.5h a day. Will that be enough to keep the battery up? Of course i will still buy the optimiser and hook the battery when I go on holiday and in the unlikely event of not riding it for more than 4 days.
Thx guys
Sergi
 
Do you have somewhere at work you could plug the bike/optimate up to then just leave it in your locker when you go home?
Just a thought:eatcorn
 
Nop, the bike stays in a solo motorbike parking bay in the street so no chance. I will just to go for good spin everyday ofter work :) :)
 
Welcome sergi :thumbup once yourv'e mastered the cold starts and keep it on optimate you will be sorted :thumbup
 
Thanks Steve. Hope to join people from this forum for rides in the south east once I've serviced the bike and I feel more confident with it.
 
sergi75 said:
Thanks Steve. Hope to join people from this forum for rides in the south east once I've serviced the bike and I feel more confident with it.
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I'm still quite new to the RSV having quite a few inline 4s for a long time but this rsv puts a big grin on ya face every time its ridden and thats why im keeping it.

What part of the island do you come from segi :dunno
 
I live in London, Fulham broadway to be more precise. I've been living in this country for 3 years. I come from Barcelona and believe it or not, I decided to take the motorbike license here!! I had a FZ6 and clocked 13k, unfortunately a cab knocked me over on my way to work and that was the end of the yamaha. Still in litigations.....I'm more than happy to have a mille now, maybe the cab driver did me a favour after all :)
 
Quite a few members down south m8, when you get time you will have to meet some and go on a rideout.... roll on summer and rsvzone rideouts :thumbup
 
Hi Sergi , just follow everyones advice and you cant go wrong, great bunch
of people here , as with your cold starts you can always move to oz :devious,
 
Not for the moment Mick, Springtime in coming up here :thumbup.....I just hope a better weather than last year, worse would be impossible :eek:
 
Sergi - what shade of the rainbow is your machine? I ride round London loads. I live in Kent.

I do not use an optimate, gettin one soon tho... If you ride a few hours every day you do not need one.

Hey Mick... I got back from Oz in June... Moving back there next year tho!!! Its rocking.
 
It's silver, I haven't got a name for her yet but it will come. It is her because motorbike is Spanish is femenine....mind you so it's ****!!:confused
 
Sergi when you start the bike from cold-- you should turn the ignition on and wait for the rev limiter to return to zero then give it some choke(just over half) don't give it any throttle and then push the starter button ,when it fires into life adjust the tickover using the choke hope that helps
 
Tomorrow morning I will comment on that, I'm sure it'll help. Cheers
 
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