Push starting a motorbike?

Well done on getting it going! Fills you with a degree of satisfaction when you hear it pop back into life

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

There are jump leads in the bike's own toolkit.

Which bikes come with jump leads Sid? I've never encountered them before until I saw them in halfrauds.

[rictus01]

he's talking about spanners, it's possible to jump a bike from one battery to another with them.

I'm not even going to ask. Leads already frighten me, spanners sound lethal.

An aside: how comes the lights (head and tail) still worked on a flat battery?

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[rictus01]

bulbs on a small capacity bike are very low draw and will work with virtually no amps and little voltage (they were probably a bit dim) as opposed to the starter circuit which is the highest single draw amp wise thing on the bike, even the solenoid requires a good 12v to switch in the circuit.

Cheers Mark.

[_Stretchie_]

It's not much fun doing it on a BlackBird I can tell you, especially in the work car park when everyone is watching

[yorkie_chris]

I had to do this for a while on the XJ900. All 240 dry kgs of it when the starter brushes wore out.
Worse, no choke cable so you have to hold the choke open with left hand after dumping the clutch and getting it spinning.

Was interesting at work on frosty car park.