Hi Jessica! Welcome to the group. With a bike that's been sitting for a long time it could be a LOT of things. This is where you start troubleshooting to eliminate possibilities one by one.
I would start by charging your battery (or making sure it can even hold a charge) and go from there. *Paul LeBoutillier * *www.hondanighthawks.net <http://www.hondanighthawks.net/>* Honda Nighthawk Lovers Email group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nighthawk_lovers> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM, jessica huffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, I have a 1985 450 nighthawk. Basically, it was sitting for > a couple of years, being turned over every now and then (months between > trying to start it up) and it ran when I bought it the other day, I rode it > from where I bought it to home, which was about 40 miles, then I hop on it > to go to work this morning and it kept stalling in traffic. I had to push > it to a safe place to park it. Anyway, the guy that helped me push it said > that it was probably the stator, either that or I drained the battery by > forgetting to turn the engine from run to off when I parked it. Does anyone > have any advice? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
