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Don't hook up the battery charger to this setup. Just attach the jump start cables between the car battery and the motorcycle battery, try starting the bike and video the results. Need to understand why the car battery isn't starting your bike, so audio and video might give more clues.

Don't know why, but it's my hands that always get F-d up in a dirt bike incident. Rashed up knuckles, jammed fingers, wrenched wrists. I need to learn to let go of things I can't control...

OP says it's a 2001, so not a Virago. Most likely a V-Star.

A battery charger is not going to be pumping out enough amps to start a motorcycle. It's used to slowly charge a battery to full juice. At the most it's charging at 15A. A V-Star 1100 needs at least 10X that amount of cold cranking amps to turn the engine over.

Still confused. In the video, you are holding a Nautilus battery charger. Is this hooked up to both the motorcycle *AND* the car battery while trying to jumpstart your motorcycle? Why would you do this?

There's also an alternate explanation for that: Tequila...

I am very confused. You said you tried to boost the bike with the car battery. When you connected the cables from your car's battery to your motorcycle battery and tried to start the bike, did it start or not? If not, then you have bigger problems than the motorcycle battery. If your car's...

This is different from what you said earlier. You said the car battery wouldn't start the bike: Now you said you had it running for 10 minutes, turned it off, then tried to restart it again. I assume you disconnected the car battery and tried to restart again with just the motorcycle battery...

I've been meaning to start a thread about motorcycle aches and pains, but I keep forgetting...

It's not a real old guy dirt bike ride unless you need to visit two places after: the ER and the parts counter at the motorcycle shop. One out of two just doesn't cut it anymore.

If it's not starting from your car battery, then it's probably not your motorcycle battery...

Measure the voltage when you're boosting from the car. Does it still drop down to 6V? If so, then your starter system is pulling some serious juice... maybe a short somewhere? Solenoid?

You say your bike is a 2001? Do you personally know how old the battery was? Just because it was in the bike at the shop when you bought it a month ago doesn't mean the shop put a new battery in. Yuasa batteries die just like any other batteries. They don't last forever.

They don't last forever. Some die slowly and give you lots of warning. Others like to die quickly. Thank the stars it died in your garage and not out on the road somewhere!

Kaput. New battery time.

Try jumping from a car battery just to make sure. If your motorcycle battery is kaput, taking it right off the charger and measuring the voltage will give you the surface charge, and not the correct reading.

Try starting the bike in neutral, check kickstand switch near your left footpeg, check kill switch on your handlebar, make sure you didn't leave the key on while you were working on the bike, thus draining your battery in the process, check your battery anyway. Also, check your battery...

Thank you for sharing your memories of her with us. My deepest condolences to you and the rest of your family.

Is this what your dash looks like?

Hm, will both apps co-exist peacefully running at the same time? Or do both apps need to be active and on-screen, and not running in the background?