My Sprint GT won’t fire up.

[Drawweight]

I went to pick up my new to me 2013 Sprint GT where its been stored for the past 6 months.

Went to start it and...the starter engages for a second, turns the bike over then seems to disengage before the bike has a chance to fire up.

If you hold the button down, after a few seconds it re engages and does the same again. Turns it over for a second then disengages.

Any idea what the problem is.

The battery seems ok, the initial turning over seems strong enough, lights etc don’t even dim that much when its turning over.

[CaptainSlow]

Be careful cranking for too long as they have delicate sprag clutches. Put new fuel in and charge the battery.

[Cylon2007]

Battery, these are well known to be an issue unless the battery is spot on, you says it's been sat for 6 months, Charge the battery fully before you retry, be careful as said above you can bugger the sprag clutch trying to start it with a dodgy battery. If it still does fire after full battery charge buy a new battery it'll be that.

[tvrolet]

Drawweight said:

The battery seems ok...

Bet it's not

[CaptainSlow]

tvrolet said:

Drawweight said:

The battery seems ok...

Bet it's not

Amps will be down....stick a new battery in or jump from a running bike...don't crank it on end...that's an expensive error.

[Drawweight]

Thanks guys.

The more I think of it the more its probably the battery.

[tivver500]

I had a similar issue with mine. Fitted a brand new Yuasa battery and, while it would start, it never turned over as quickly as I felt it should......
Lots of research found that the 1050 triple is very sensitive to batteries.

Ended up buying a MotoBatt battery (from M&P Swansea), fully charged it then fitted and bike was back to perfect starting.....
The MotoBatt wasn't any more expensive than 'others'.

If you have a good (sophisticated....) multimeter connect across the battery, select 'minimum voltage record' then crank the engine and see what the battery voltage drops to. If it goes below 9volts then time for a new battery.....

[S6OOH]

Got a Sprint GT, that's the battery

[CaptainSlow]

Join the FB forums and get some thicker "Pudding" cables too

[Drawweight]

I got the battery Sat morning put it in Sunday and it fired up first go even after sitting for 6 months.

I did a steady 60 miles or so just so get my hand back in as it’s been about 2 years since I rode a bike.

I like it!

[Rockape]

My tiger 1050 was taking a couple of goes at starting despite what appeared a healthy battery. New battery and some 'pudding' cables the difference was night and day.