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Batteries and Jump Starting your motorcycle

Start your motorcycle. If your motorbike doesn’t start, the battery may be

completely drained. However, if there’s any energy at all in it, the bike should
start within the first few tries.
 Leave the bike running for a few minutes so the engine can warm up.

Disconnect the cables.
It is vital that you disconnect the cables in the proper order. Disconnect the

black (negative) cable on the live battery first and then disconnect the black
cable on the other bike frame. Then do the same with the red (positive) cable.
You should also take specific care in making sure that the clamps don’t come

into contact with each other until they have been fully disconnected.
Leave the bike running until you arrive at your destination.

Jump start from a car.
Leave the car off if jump-starting using a car. Car batteries have far more

capacity than motorcycle batteries. So the car should be left off for the
duration of this process.

 The car battery will not fry your motorcycle battery.
 Connect the jumper leads as for Bike to Bike jump starting above

Push-Starting the Motorcycle
Put the bike in 2nd or 3rd gear. You know
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