XB12scg turn over issues

[pixelronin]

Hi,

I recently purchased a buell xb12scg. I had a friend ride it home when I purchased it, and it sat for a week or so until I could finish my MSF. Once I completed that and had a better idea of proper motorcycling I decided to just practice in my parking garage. Well, to my surprise it would not start. I turned the key on, the panel illuminated and the Neutral, Pistons ( I believe), and Oil lights stayed on, and then the Pistons light went off. I turned the switch to on, and went to fire her up. I hear a click, and then whirring sound, the headlights went off and the lights still on dimmed down.

I assumed I had let the battery discharge, so I bought a battery tender and charged it. I put it on, and with still some slight issues from before, it cranked with a backfire and rumble. After letting it idle it seemed to come to terms. I went on to practice riding for about an hour and then turned her off for the night. And enjoyed the awesomeness...but better understood I would need more practicing.

I went to practice today, and I got the same issues as before, with the lights dimming, headlights going out, heard the click, whirring sound. But after turning off and trying again it did the same, but after a few minutes the headlights came, the dash lights got back to their normal lamination and I turned the switch on to crank her and she went back to the same ill state she was in a moment before.

I have not had the chance to take the battery and have it tested. Just scrolling through the PDF manual I got and thought I would ask the buellxb community for it's insight.

I thank you for any help or advice, and I appreciate your time.

Cheers!

Pixel

 

[crawfo]

Sounds like a bad battery.....replace it and keep an eye on the new one for unusual draw.

 

[pixelronin]

Ok, an update on the bike...after look through a couple of post on the boards...I had a few things I could test.

Oddly enough it was the first one I tried (so far). There are a few seat choices for the cycle, and mine is not the high sitting seat, mine is the lower one. I took the seat off, and boom....cranked every time without fail.

I put some electrical tape where I saw some exposed areas might need it. Put seat back on, cranks lovely.

It does come with a small tool kit you can keep under the seat. It has a zipper on it, so I'm not sure if they would bounce around and ground/short something out as well.

So for now, its out...until I find a better carrier for it.

Now on to my practicing.


crawfo - thanks for the tip, I believe this was my issue as the lights didn't dim or headlights go off. but I will keep an eye on it for sure. thanks!

 

[HMTRAN]

Congrats on your first Buell! Just wanted to throw you +1 for actually searching the forums for your answer rather then everybody else doing it for you. Keep up the practicing, bikes are awesome, but dangerous with lack of experience, stupidity, and complacency. I've seen many people whom never rode before, go straight to getting a nice new motorcycle and go straight to full on riding. They usually wreck that perfectly good bike that could have gone to somebody else pretty quickly, then most of them never ride again after that. Seems like you're taking the smarter route. Keep it up. [up]

 

[crxtasy169]

Replace the battery and then crank it up and put a multimeter on the battery in volts DC. The charging system should be around 14volts if operating correctly. If its really high the voltage regulator is bad and you will have to replace the reg/rec unit. If it is too low you have another problem in the system, bad stator, reg/rec, or the wiring. Start with the basic test at the battery while running and go from there. Just sounds like a bad battery to me as well.
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