So I was out riding on Saturday, bike worked fine. Brought it home and had to clean it up (really friggin’ muddy) so I used my pressure washer which took almost an hour. Cleaned the bike up, started it and parked it in the back yard.
Tonight when I went to start it, turned the key and no lights came on (no headlights, or neutral light). I tried to kick start it, the lights came on for a second (it did almost turn over), then nothing the next kick and tried kicking about 3 more times. No lights will flicker when trying to kick start it at all.
It does have a winch connected NOT to an ignition wire (winch will work without the key on), but I never had any battery drain issues (I never connected the winch this way).
Is it the battery (currently have it on a trickle charger), or is this something else? I figured even with a bad/dead battery, the kick start should turn it over…
Any thoughts?
