Bought a new to me toy this month, a 1988 Yamaha TW200. My first bike and I’m excited to start learning to ride it. I’ve ridden on the back, and started it once myself with the kickstarter about 1.5 weeks ago, so far.
It was warm out today, almost 40F, so I thought to spend a little time getting more comfortable with it. Perhaps something really bold such as starting it and sitting on it for a little while . Worked up a good sweat, and got very comfortable standing on the foot pegs, but could not get it to fire up. Fuel petcock is open, choke pulled out, key on, run switch is on. I really feel like it should have at least started...
(FWIW, I’m fairly well versed in cars, and older crabby cars at that. My current car fleet ranges from 1973 w/ manual choke to ‘03 with fuel injection) I’ll be honest though, I’m totally new to bikes and am a bit intimidated by the two wheels. I’ll deal with that and work through it like anything else. I more don’t want to accidentally be abusive to the bike - hopefully that makes sense.)
Thoughts anyone?
It was warm out today, almost 40F, so I thought to spend a little time getting more comfortable with it. Perhaps something really bold such as starting it and sitting on it for a little while . Worked up a good sweat, and got very comfortable standing on the foot pegs, but could not get it to fire up. Fuel petcock is open, choke pulled out, key on, run switch is on. I really feel like it should have at least started...
(FWIW, I’m fairly well versed in cars, and older crabby cars at that. My current car fleet ranges from 1973 w/ manual choke to ‘03 with fuel injection) I’ll be honest though, I’m totally new to bikes and am a bit intimidated by the two wheels. I’ll deal with that and work through it like anything else. I more don’t want to accidentally be abusive to the bike - hopefully that makes sense.)
Thoughts anyone?