DJ-RK
Well-known member
Hoping someone can help me figure out this problem that just kicked up today. My bike is a 2012 CBR250RA. New battery about 2-3 months back.
Rode into work fine, but when I reached there, stopped, and killed the engine while I went inside to get something, when I came back the dashboard was having a seizure (lights/display flickering). After turning the ignition key on and off a few times the dashboard eventually lit up properly. I didn't actually start the bike then, I just walked it over to my parking spot and figured I'd deal with it after work.
When I did finish work, and tried turning the key over, the dashboard did the funky chicken again. After a couple turns it still didn't come on, but I left it in the on position and about a minute later it just sprang to life as if I had just turned the key over. However when I tried pushing the starter button it just immediately died without even trying to start. I was able to repeat this process once (turned on, saw my neutral light slowly fade on, and then boom! full dash on, but died with attempted to start it). At this point I try bump starting it, and got it started so I thought I was fine, however once I came to a stop it immediately died again (and I obv disengaged the clutch, so it wasn't a stall out).
At this point I tried bump starting it again, got it going, and had to keep revving/giving it gas the whole way back (even while at a stop) to keep it from dying. The whole ride home, my speedo was going all over the map (jumping from random values like 21 km/h to 75 km/h, etc), my abs light was going on and off the whole way, and the ABS may have actually been kicking in while it was doing it because my velocity was jerking and revving was sputtering the entire time. I looked like a freakshow driving like this! I made it about a block away from my house when I hit a combo of a badly timed red light turning green & bicyclist made me come to a stop without giving it enough gas, and it died on me and I had to push it the rest of the way back from there.
Anyone able to diagnose what could be the problem based on this description?
Rode into work fine, but when I reached there, stopped, and killed the engine while I went inside to get something, when I came back the dashboard was having a seizure (lights/display flickering). After turning the ignition key on and off a few times the dashboard eventually lit up properly. I didn't actually start the bike then, I just walked it over to my parking spot and figured I'd deal with it after work.
When I did finish work, and tried turning the key over, the dashboard did the funky chicken again. After a couple turns it still didn't come on, but I left it in the on position and about a minute later it just sprang to life as if I had just turned the key over. However when I tried pushing the starter button it just immediately died without even trying to start. I was able to repeat this process once (turned on, saw my neutral light slowly fade on, and then boom! full dash on, but died with attempted to start it). At this point I try bump starting it, and got it started so I thought I was fine, however once I came to a stop it immediately died again (and I obv disengaged the clutch, so it wasn't a stall out).
At this point I tried bump starting it again, got it going, and had to keep revving/giving it gas the whole way back (even while at a stop) to keep it from dying. The whole ride home, my speedo was going all over the map (jumping from random values like 21 km/h to 75 km/h, etc), my abs light was going on and off the whole way, and the ABS may have actually been kicking in while it was doing it because my velocity was jerking and revving was sputtering the entire time. I looked like a freakshow driving like this! I made it about a block away from my house when I hit a combo of a badly timed red light turning green & bicyclist made me come to a stop without giving it enough gas, and it died on me and I had to push it the rest of the way back from there.
Anyone able to diagnose what could be the problem based on this description?
