Poor little FXR150 doing something funny

[phiretrojan]

Evening people,

it only happens in Cold weather and when i dont use the Bike for a Few days, but if i use it once its start perfect... here is a simple video clip i did

does anyone know the problem? i have a brand new battery in and fully charged brought from Wellington motorcycles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xT-r1Jg4jQ

Thanks so much

[Marcel]

Hi Phiretrojan. This is my first post on KB (joined a cupla days ago), noob haha.
I'm at work now and they block youtube so I can't see what the prob is but I can tell you that if its having trouble cold starting, turn off the fuel tap when your not gona be using it for more than a few hours. I'm guessing the carb slowly leaks fuel into the cylinder and floods it when you leave it for a long time, making it harder to start.
I do it all the time now and it starts like a dream.

[EJK]

Does it have enough battery? Try kick starting it. Sorry I can't help/ judge why your bike does that on Cold weather days.

[R6_kid:Me]

kick start it? sounds like a puckered start relay, but no idea why cold weather would affect a relay.

[Nasty]

When we had ours we needed to put it on trickle charge due to the battery ending up sounding like that if not used for a few days ... or sounding like that if it won't start straight away.

[samgab]

haha, it's funny that this thread has resurrected itself after all this time. He sorted the problem peoples! It was indeed a loose battery terminal. Easy fix.