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Hey there, yeh, it was definately the starter motor for mine, found out the brushes were stuck and quite worn inside the motor. I cleaned the inside and replaced the brushes(cheaper option to replacing the whole unit hehe), its starting perfectly fine. Thanks for the help guys

I've managed to start the bike by connecting the batt negative to outside of the starter motor casing. So I'm kinda confused, runs fine if I do it like that, any ideas?

Thanks for the quick reply, I was using a multimeter to check the voltages. I won't have the tool for removing my sparks until later today to check the pistons, but it doesn't seem like its getting to that point, I'll check it once I have my tools back tonight. I've cleaned the connections and tried bypasing the relay with a jumper cable batt to motor, but no activity from that all unfortunately, I'm really puzzled by this fault now unless its a dead starter motor or so then I'm kinda stuck until pay day if that needs a replacement.

Hi guys and gals, Newish to the forum, so hi from me to begin with! Not sure quite where to start with this since I'm quite a novice with bikes but here I go... First off I'm an all weather rider, I have been riding it perfectly with no issues until a few days ago when I stopped off at the local shop. When I came back to the bike the only thing that happened was a loud single click with no engine activity at all, luckily this was only 2 minutes away from my house. I traced the loud click noise to the starter relay, did a little google research and some people have suggested checking connections for errosion or a starter relay issue. So far I've checked and cleaned all the connections related to this, also I've just replaced the starter relay with a brand new one but with same results. I've tried checking the voltages as best I can, seems to be power flowing right up to the connection on top of the starter motor, until I press the start switch and it drops to 0. Any help would be very appreciated! A. Morris