Hi guys ,
Happy new year ,
Got my Uly out the other day , unhooked her from the trickle charger and fired her up ,
Should she spin over before starting ?
Cos when I press the starter the motor stirs , hits compression , pauses then fires up ,
to be honest she has always done it , just wondered if that was normal ?
All my other bikes turn over quite quickly , the Uly always gives me an 'oh shit ' moment of doubt .
Having said that , she never fails to thump into life .

Cheers ,

Mike.

Sounds perfectly normal to me, Mike.

One question though - why haven't you been riding over Christmas ?

It's been one long summer round here

Thanks Digger ,
to be honest , the only reason I haven't been out for a blast before now is that I am a complete fanny and hate getting cold and wet , also they are a bit salt happy round here and I would hate for my pride and joy to be eaten by that nasty shite .

Thanks again for the info my friend ,

Mike.

My Uly does the same, I'm new to Buells and was'nt to sure if this was right and it does make you think is this right that she turn's stop's for a milli second then fires, I guess all is well.

Another reminder to folks though .................................if you're going to start your Buell up especially XB's make sure you run it long enough to get it fully up to temperature , If you don't you'll be joining the long list of folks posting either my Buell won't start or my Buell only runs on one cylinder and aren't the plugs a bastard to get out of an XB .
Also partially warming an engine does it far more harm than leaving it stood

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Good point ,
thanks Kevmean

XB's have a really shit earth path to the motor ie. battery earth is to the seat subframe which then passes through a convoluted series of bolted up items before it gets to the engine

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Ah !
Thanks Maz , never thought of that

Was thinking about posting re: that pecularity. Thanks for the clarification. My Ulysses has now been formally relegated to the the sub's bench because of a new record signing. A Suzuki GSX 1300 B-King!!

My uly's fine - never noticed any hesitation in the motor spinning up; but, a to the comment re warming the thing up properly once started - i failed to do it when offloading the bike from the removal van and the front plug fouled on me.

i never had a plug foul on anything else in the last 35 yrs: why are the old hardly lumps so prone to it ?

Yeh, why ARE they prone to fouling plugs

Hi Guys, my Uly was lazy starting since I bought it, ie. stalling at top dead center before firing up more or less first time. Like Maz , I thought it was a bad earth and I had a separate earth lead made and I bypassed the subframe directly to the engine. It made no difference, but at least I know I have compression. Now when starting I bring the engine to compression and release the starter, it starts nice and smoothly without hesitation next prod of the starter.
By the way I put a brand new battery on when I bought it so it wasn't the battery, cheers.