ViragoSwe

Hi Paul and Stephen! I am totally new in here. I am in Sweden and I have a Virago 125 that has been running great until this summer. I had not used it at all last year though, so I had to do a couple of small fixes and got it running again, and at first I thought that an old battery was the problem to a no-start bike. I have read this whole thread since I have similar problems and you guys wrote a lot of great things. Now I have a new battery, oil changed, new sparks and it still won’t start. I left it with a mechanic friend of mine that told me there was no or very low compression from either cylinder. Now, when I drove the bike to him I had to bump start it, but once it started it was driving just fine and reaching a top speed of 90Km/h with decent accelleration. Coukd it be piston rings issues or could it be something else? And if it is the piston rings, do we have to remove the engine from the bike in order to replace them? Thank you so much for your help! Andrea PS: UPDATE! I met the mechanic yesterday and we managed to start the bike in a couple of minutes by bump strarting it. He was baffled and so was I and now he also doesn’t have a clue why it would not start from cold without pushing it. It starts just fine with a warm-ish engine. we also removed the air filter (waiting for a new one) and the bike started (with a luke-warm engine) with a better response than before. I just tried starting it again with a cold engine and still no start. Any clues? Thanks!