So today, I go out to go for a ride, bike starts right up. Leave my driveway and before I hit the stop sign, not even 30 seconds from my drive, the rear wheel is sliding all over the place. I went down, minor minor damage to the Hawk. Mirror bent, no biggy, plastics are fine, exhaust is fine. I get it up and the bike won't start. I wheel it back to my house, the bike starts so I am wondering what is up. I turn it off and immediately go to start it again, it acts like the battery is dead but, what is causing this? Could I have jarred some wires loose or did I just blow my RR? Very confused, will see if it starts tomorrow and see what happens. Any help is appreciated.

 

when i was learing to ride, i dropped my ninja 250 a few time, kickstand sinking into the ground and parking lot crap. it would screw up the carbs, but after a few miles it cleared everything up again.

 

How did your back wheel end up sliding all over the place? Inquiring minds want to know. Let us know. Maybe we can learn something. Hey Jay956 I used to live up the road from Caroline. Used to ride the country roads down in your neck of the woods to get ready for the MS150 bike ride. I heard things have changed since 01.

 

yeah, its not as country anymore.

 

To be honest, not at all sure. I was pulling up to the stop sign and it started sliding around on me when I hit the breaks. Lucky for me, there was virtually no damage minus a mirror and a foot peg. I don't think this is a carb problem, went to start the bike today and the battery sounds almost dead. Wrap your brain around that one. Ran fine before the lay over, now it's dead?

 

Outside temperature/road conditions? Is it autumn or end of season where you live? Cold tires combined with cold asphalt will hit you hard if you aren't aware...

Did you loose any fluids? Where there any previous spill on the road...

Normally after a tip over the carbs are screwed up for the next start attempt as there will be to little or to much where it isn't supposed to be... as jay said running it a while will clear that...

Did you try starting it for a good while? If it was a bit weak to begin with it would drop fast during starting, and need a bit of running time to catch up (which it didn't get with your tipover) and then trying to start it would make the battery flat...

Start by checking the obvious... Battery terminals, other cables... The state of the connector to the R/R... Clean the connectors, check that you have good connection and give them a dab of vaseline to keep them from corroding/getting moisture in...

 

I agree with checking the obvious first, battery cables would be my first place. You're on the right track when you said wait until tomorrow and see. Sometimes when the adrenaline is still flowing around we miss really simple things, we've all done it a few times I'm sure.

 

do you have a wet battery? if you do, you might need to refill it

 

It was nice out, but yes end of season. I did not see any fluids on the road. As for my bike leaking fluid, a little maybe a cap full of a green looking liquid, still looking into that.


I ran it for about 5-10 minutes before shutting it off to restart it. The batter was not weak when I started it, before the tip. Now after the tip, it is rather weak. Thanks for the help. Hopefully it will stay nice this weekend so I can start checking it over. Only damage I have found, minus a pinky finger size scuff on the fairing, is my right footpeg is cracked, well not exactly the footpeg itself, where it connects. Sorry, in my current state of exhaustion I am having trouble finding the exact name for the part.

 

I would start by putting a voltmeter on the battery while running. There's plenty of info here on the forum on dying batteries and R/Rs.