So what's your experience with jump-starting your motorcycle?  Let me know if options need to be added.

Where's the

"Done no such thing because bump starting was always sufficient" option? (Plus, I had no car available for such stunts...)

It's in the "How do you start your motorcycle when your battery is dead" poll. 

I am the one who ran the experiment of running the GS without a battery.

It takes about 3 times more manliness than I can provide to bump-start my TL...so it gets jumped.  I've jumped every other bike I've owned, too.  Never had a single problem.  I think the people who claim it's evil had broken bikes to begin with.  I mean shaZam! the only thing people can worry about is amps and that's not happening with the car at idle.

I've always had a full battery or used a battery tender.  If i needed it started NOW, I wouldn't hesitate to jump it with a non running car.

Quote from: makenzie71 on October 06, 2006, 09:16:04 AM
It takes about 3 times more manliness than I can provide to bump-start my TL...so it gets jumped.  I've jumped every other bike I've owned, too.  Never had a single problem.  I think the people who claim it's evil had broken bikes to begin with.  I mean shaZam! the only thing people can worry about is amps and that's not happening with the car at idle.

yep and at most you blow the 10amp fuse........
Haha I'd like to see you push the TL then jump on it and see it turn over

Jumping is for wussies. Bump start is where it's at boys.

I've jump-started two motorcycles off of mine...

Does that count for anything?

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on October 06, 2006, 12:12:26 PM
Jumping is for wussies. Bump start is where it's at boys.

I agree, but in the dead of winter, when the bikes are snug in their hybernation resting places, I HAVE TO jump start them.

I've never had to jump my GS but I've jumped plenty of bikes without problems. Usually there is no need to start the car though, unless the car battery is shot. The only thing that I've ever screwed up by jumping, was my friends Toyota pickup. It was dark out, I was drunk, and I hooked up the cables backwards  whups. It screwed up his alternator. So long as you hook it up right, you shouldn't have any problems.

Egaeus:

You forgot a comma in one of the responses, and I'm not talking about the last two responses!

i had some carb issues and pretty much wore down my battery cranking the bike over.  i couldnt get going fast enough on flat ground to roll start it so i jumped it off my truck while it wasn't running.  it fired up after some cranking and has yet to give me trouble.  then again i don't ride my gs at all anymore 

Quote from: pandy on October 06, 2006, 02:47:21 PM
Egaeus:

You forgot a comma in one of the responses, and I'm not talking about the last two responses!

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Quote from: Egaeus on October 06, 2006, 09:57:49 PM

Quote from: pandy on October 06, 2006, 02:47:21 PM
Egaeus:

You forgot a comma in one of the responses, and I'm not talking about the last two responses!

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Thats ok cause neither does pandy & she posted it 

really no need to have the cage running to jump a bike, at all, usually enough in the car battery to get the job done, from what ive heard, having the car running, can, Note i sad can, not would, cause problems

yes i have jumped pretty much all my bikes, cept my harley, from my vehicles, when i bought them, either i was testing the engines, or the battery in them was dead

Jumping from a higher capacity 12v battery will not cause any electrical problems, the motor only draws the current it needs regardless of the batterys capacity. The danger is in prolonged use of the motor. A higher capacity battery will take longer to flatten than the stock 11 amp/hour GS item and such will allow the motor to run for a longer period of time before discharging than it would on the GS battery. Starter motors are not continualy rated ie. they are designed to operate occasionaly and for short periods of time only. Continual use will result in overheating and damage to the winding. They are series wound machines and as such depend on the load to regulate speed, if allowed to overspeed they may well destroy themselves. The armature winding becomes loose and flies out due to centrifugal force.......see Starwalts Avatar. If using a higher capacity battery dont keep your finger on the start button any longer than you normaly would or you risk damaging the motor.

Quote from: Egaeus on October 06, 2006, 09:57:49 PM
I have no idea what you are talking about.

I see you fixed it!  I like to be helpful!  

Quote from: pandy on October 07, 2006, 08:07:49 AM
I see you fixed it! 

Fixed what?

I have an excuse.  I had a brain aneurysm when I looked at the poll and realized that I put jump-starting, jumpstarting, and jump starting in the same poll.