Woe257
Junior Member
neighbor guy wanted to see my bike. long story short, I only got my 2006 FZ6 out of storage a week ago. Put the battery in (3 years old & on a tender this winter) started it up, rode 7 miles after prep/lube,etc., parked in garage. started up 2 days ago for about 5 minutes. everything great/normal.
So..the guy comes over and the ignition seems a little stickey in hindsite, but I turn to "on" and I get nothing...not even a tick/sound or lights as the guages normally cycle on. nothing when press the starter, nothing at all. Not a flicker of light on the gauges, not a spark. No kill switch in wrong position. Key was in off position. thinking something in the ignition itself so I messed with that for a bit. YUUP, bit of an ididot here and could not recall if the ignition /key turned past the "on" position to the right, but it will not, if it ever did/does??? (grasping here for something never paid attention to) Thinking I somehow blew an ignition fuse and or the battery run down somehow. (actually first thought, but did not wanted to do everthing else before the hazzle of getting to the fuses and battery-and have never had a problem to hint at the battery running down)
No fuse problem. Put tender on (all I have for a charger for the MC) and I get a faded "clock time" on the gauge. So, battery is stone dead. Still waiting(of course) for it to hopefully charge enought to turn over. (about 4 hours now)
so, What caused it to discharge so completely like that with never a hint, etc of a problem. This bike has been flawless prior. I have no additional electrical draws. My neighbor questioned the ignition switch and the little black arrow notch to the right of "on"...and darn if i ever noticed as nothing ever went wrong before. Feeling a bit of idiot on the ignition thing.:spank: So what wehat about the ignition switch...can anyone provide some further troubleshooting on missing the obvious- moment I'm having.
So..the guy comes over and the ignition seems a little stickey in hindsite, but I turn to "on" and I get nothing...not even a tick/sound or lights as the guages normally cycle on. nothing when press the starter, nothing at all. Not a flicker of light on the gauges, not a spark. No kill switch in wrong position. Key was in off position. thinking something in the ignition itself so I messed with that for a bit. YUUP, bit of an ididot here and could not recall if the ignition /key turned past the "on" position to the right, but it will not, if it ever did/does??? (grasping here for something never paid attention to) Thinking I somehow blew an ignition fuse and or the battery run down somehow. (actually first thought, but did not wanted to do everthing else before the hazzle of getting to the fuses and battery-and have never had a problem to hint at the battery running down)
No fuse problem. Put tender on (all I have for a charger for the MC) and I get a faded "clock time" on the gauge. So, battery is stone dead. Still waiting(of course) for it to hopefully charge enought to turn over. (about 4 hours now)
so, What caused it to discharge so completely like that with never a hint, etc of a problem. This bike has been flawless prior. I have no additional electrical draws. My neighbor questioned the ignition switch and the little black arrow notch to the right of "on"...and darn if i ever noticed as nothing ever went wrong before. Feeling a bit of idiot on the ignition thing.:spank: So what wehat about the ignition switch...can anyone provide some further troubleshooting on missing the obvious- moment I'm having.