| Author | Message | ||
     Nextcorner |
Bike is 2003 XB9R. Last weekend, I tried to start her up for the 3rd ride since winter (sad, I know). It's been 2 months since she's been started. When hitting the starter, all I hear is "click, click, click, click" about 10 times per second. I've heard this before and I would usually charge the battery and be good to go. I let the charger sit on over-night at 2 amps. The next morning, the same thing happens. I then tried to jump start it with my boat battery (cranking). I still got the same results. I had enough and decided to take out the battery and buy a new one the next day. Since I had the battery out, I decided to hook it up to the charger over-night for the hell of it. The next morning, she took a charge and started right up. I thought I was good to go, but this weekend was the same thing. Any thoughts? I eventually got it to start with a charger that has a 50-amp starting setting on it. | ||
| Nextcorner |
Throughout the years of owning the bike, I have noticed that mine always started a little harder than everyone else's. It would always do 1 or 2 slow cranks before cranking at "normal" speed. It seemed that all the other Buell's would just have to barely touch the starter and it would fire right up.... | ||
| Nextcorner |
Ha! Post title should read BATTERY. I'm not cooking fish..... | ||
| B00stzx3 |
Maybe replace the battery? Maybe a buddy has a battery you can borrow to test with before you one outright. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Could be a number of things. First of all, if it is the original battery, your plan of replacing it sounds like a good idea. You seem to be saying that your original battery would work the day after it was charged, but after a week, it would not. Sounds like it either will not hold a charge, or it is not getting charged by the bikes alternator. In this case, since the battery is old, and you do not appear to have ridden the bike, the first thing I would do is put the new battery in after charging it over night, and see how that goes. If that does not work, you may have a drain on the battery . You also need to do something about the boat battery  | ||
| Nextcorner |
This battery is only a year old. It's not the original. I will probably bring the battery into AutoZone or somewhere that has a tester. | ||
| Sloppy |
It is CRITICAL that you get a TRICKLE CHARGER if you don't ride your bike for extended periods of times. I highly recommend a Battery Tender Plus. You may be able to recover your battery (I've saved hundreds of dollars myself) with the Battery Tender. |
