Having a Problem With Your Bike? Help Us Help You.

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Your bike isn't running properly, engine stalling, brakes not working correctly, clutch not engaging etc............

Forum members have a wealth of knowledge and can probably help you resolve the issue, but they need some basic info that you should provide in your initial post.

Take the time to review the following points and cover off everthing that is relevant to your issue in your first post and then the responses you receive will focus in on the solution and not be requests for basic bike info or repair history needed to understand your bike's specific issue.

HISTORY AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND

• Bike brand and model number/name, year and current mileage.
• Did you own the bike from new? if not, when did you buy it and at what mileage?
• If the bike was recently serviced by a dealer (or you) what, exactly, does that mean? Give us the date of service and was it just an oil change or did you have extensive work done and if so, was it to address to running issue(s) you are posting about or just as scheduled or seasonal preventative maintenenace?
• Assuming the bike was running great just after the service when did the issue you are posting about start in terms of km riden after the service, was it sudden and constant or did it start and is getting progressively worse?
• Give us some assessment of your willingness or ability to do tests or repairs. There's no point in forum members suggesting you do a bunch or diagnostic tests or actually make repairs if you have no place to do the work, own no tools, have no shop manual, have no inclination to learn, are afraid of working on your bike or are currently having a dealer do virtually 100% of all repairs or PM work.
• If you have done a number of things to determine the cause of the issue (tested battery, pulled plugs, cleaned connectors etc... whatever) tell us in detail what you did, findings and if anything or nothing changed.
• If relevant, post pictures or videos of the parts in question, wiring diagrams etc..........

Above are just the basics, but if provided can eliminate many many posts asking for info that could have been provided in the first post. It also facilitates responders making suggestions or recommendations that are actually relevant to your bike and how you're going to move forward to get it fixed.

Last thing.......... As a common courtesy to those forum members who took the time to help you out please let us know how the issue was resolved.

 

[GreyGhost]

Sticky? Great post.

I would add video to the last bullet. Youtube is free, cell phones shoot video and that can tell people a lot (for instance on a recent no-start issue, people could hear whether if power or compression sounded terrible).