A 3 month old battery loses its charge with 15 miles

Great responses, thank you all.

Any thoughts please on starting the bike up with very little oil for 2 or 3 minutes to test the stator output voltage at 4000rpm?

Cheers

Jimbo68 wrote:

Great responses, thank you all.

Any thoughts please on starting the bike up with very little oil for 2 or 3 minutes to test the stator output voltage at 4000rpm?

Cheers

Don't do it, you will starve the top end of oil and possibly spin a bearing

^^^ What Wookie said ^^^.   Oil is cheaper than damage caused by oil starvation.

   To clarify our suggestion above to tilt the bike opposite the cover being removed, it doesn't require much tilt for most or all the oil to evacuate from the cover being moved.  30° ~ 45° from vertical will almost assuredly be enough.

  A discussion was had here not long ago about re-using newish motor oil that had been run.  If desired, wipe the area around the drain pug, drain it into a clean container, cover it for the duration, then pour it into the motor when ready.  Filter through a couple layers of terrycloth to catch any sand sized particles if deemed necessary.

Good Ridin'
slmjim & Z1BEBE

Thank you both. Great advice.

If I start a new post about dropping a bike on to its right hand side, you’ll know what’s happened 🤣🤣.