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battery sorted it really surprising and yeah i presumed i had to charge the battery first haha turns out i didnt.

I think it may be caused by the battery, as when i got it the guy said it has a dead battery and he will put on charge for few hours before i come there which only had enough power to keep the lights on no electric start. But it ran 100% fine and it seemed to mostly happen when i had slowed down (causing less charge well holding enough power also the speedo and rev being a bit funny and maybe when i was going down hill my bike got to the right speed to give the battery enough charge to fire up?

No evidence its just what it feels like, as soon as it happened my friend thought a spark plug had gone I got it second hand with 13k miles on it the guy had charged it a bit before putting it back on, to test if its the battery could i jump start it off my other 125 not sure how long till i can get a battery charger and fit it. my grandad will have a volt metre what would i have to test? I'm not sure it has a fuel filter or if it does which im assuming all bikes do? no idea where it is. is there anyway i can determine its the jets on the carb without going through the hassle removing seat removing tank cleaning carb ect? and reading Berkshire

how would i tell? just took some petrol out second lot seemed to be clear as anything Now the bike isnt even sometimes working now its always just half compression like it was in the video the whole time. battery just came My local mechanic is sure it is the jets clogged the carb looks so hard to remove on this bike

how would i tell? just took some petrol out second lot seemed to be clear as anything Now the bike isnt even sometimes working now its always just half compression like it was in the video the whole time. battery just came

Does anybody know how to drain the petrol easy? and is there any guides on taking the carb off and apart? thanks

actually i cant test that because i have no kick start or battery..

Okay so i tried the first thing multiple times, I did Allot of bloody running. results; starting with front coil off = worked starting with back coil off= worked after it was switched on; pulling front plug off= killed the engine pulling back plug off= killed the engine I took a video of it running this was full throttle "> p.s Cheers for all your help! will try compression thing tomorrow

Okay ill go try that now. so if it starts with one or other its not the coil. what if neither of them make it start how would i know its the valves and what would i have to do? (sorry im a noob)

at one point it was constantly back firing. So if its the coil how do i tell which one? and hwo do i determined it is the coil? cheers.

So I bought A Honda varadero 125 i choose this bike because i thought it would be reliable. Anyway, Yesterday when i bought it it rode home completely perfect about 10 miles. Then in the morning after i tried to ride it and it back fired a bit and went sort of sluggish on acceleration, I immediately thought it hasn't got enough fuel. Filled it up then it started getting worse when i tried to start it. So i thought could be spark plug. Changed both to brand new plugs it then worked for about half a hour, and then it proceeded to happen again, usually after starting it or slowing down. I was close to a Honda garage so i stopped in and spoke to one of the mechanics he fiddld with the coils and had a look but nothing he didnt have a clue either. then we took spark plugs out to see if they were fine in case of a mixture issue, they looked fine had no way to check for spark as the battery is dead bought a new one today, but they looked clean and shiny still. What actually happends So i will bump the bike and it will slug like there is nothing happening will get to about 10mph then suddenly it will just work again and be perfect. sometimes slowing down causes it, and not sure if its is coincidence but soemtimes gearigndown sorted it for a while. Then it was doing it continuously on the way home got to 10mph i tried to pull choke and it just killed the bike after bumping it again it worked fine for about 2 minutes and went back to being crap. as i was pulling into my drive which is slightly sloped it picked up again. rode down the street and died. i managed to get to 5th gear and only reach 20mph. So what im asking is for someone to help me any ideas or if you have had the problem, just spent out on this bike no money to go to a garage specially as the Honda one didn't seem to have much idea. Greatly appreciate any help i can get thanks