'09 Ninja 250 won't start

Hey yall thanks for all the help I switched my spark plugs, and BOOM it fired up fine i road it 10 kms filled it up, put stabil into it, and now its inside my house chilling until the spring! Luckily it was the spark plugs because i def will not know how to fix the carb like elton said i just wanted to fire it up haha

Thanks again for all the help
 
Bweixz said:
Hey yall thanks for all the help I switched my spark plugs, and BOOM it fired up fine i road it 10 kms filled it up, put stabil into it, and now its inside my house chilling until the spring! Luckily it was the spark plugs because i def will not know how to fix the carb like elton said i just wanted to fire it up haha

Thanks again for all the help
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congratz!
 
Thats good news. But I' not sure it's a good idea to store a bike in the house if the tank is still filled with gas.....
 
elton_t said:
Sorry did you take my bike into account? Mine didnt have starting issues also.

you are so sure about everything, have you seen OP's bike in person?

If the carburetor has gas left in it for long time like OP's bike did, it will get gummed up hence having trouble to start. The needle can get stuck. The more tries he does, more fuel is going to the carbs hence creating the flooding condition. I don't think you have take this into account, have you? There are MANY ways a bike can get flooded, not only running rich. I have worked on my bike a lot, i know opening up the throttle will help A LOT for these types of problems. For such simple task there's no need for even a screwdriver. Just because YOU like to take bike apart doesn't mean everyone else does. Sounds familiar? lol
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Hey I don't know why you are getting ****** at what Brian is saying. Although I may not always agree with what he is noting either. One thing I do notice is that he does have alot of experience and helps alot of us here on the board. I don't think bashing people like him is constructive. We should be greatfull that people like him offer their knowlege to us. It's up to the individual to determine wheither or not they follow someones advise.
 
250R-ICE said:
Hey I don't know why you are getting ****** at what Brian is saying. Although I may not always agree with what he is noting either. One thing I do notice is that he does have alot of experience and helps alot of us here on the board. I don't think bashing people like him is constructive. We should be greatfull that people like him offer their knowlege to us. It's up to the individual to determine wheither or not they follow someones advise.
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Dude i have stated very clearly in my first post his information was very helpful and informative. What you are saying is accusing me. If you dont agree with him, you need to say it. Not because he is an admin he is always right. I was stating the fact he might have missed some of the details, i never said he was wrong in any way but he claimed everything i said was wrong. You need to defend yourself in situation and not having to obey with someone because he has a lot of experience or an admin. I was a newbie, i know exactly what the OP's ability, like he said he would not feel comfortable doing the carb work. Also please stay away from commenting who's more constructive or who's right in this sense after OP has concluded his findings, there's no point but generating more crap like this. We were all trying to help the OP with each other's perspective, not a battle between who is the most knowledgeable.
 
Chill out, folks. Working with not all the information is pretty much standard practice around here.

I will say this, though. It's great that changing the spark plugs got the original poster's bike going again. But unless something happened to the bike that we are not privy to, spark plugs should not go bad in less than 1000 km. Something's up.

It could be that at some point in the past, the previous owner left the choke on too long and fouled them, in which case, maybe there is no problem. But, be alert to the possibility that the jetting on that bike still needs work. Brand new spark plugs will fire air/fuel mixtures that are further off spec than used spark plugs will (and that's likely why the original poster's bike started right up with new spark plugs).

I resent the implication that "all carb tampering is evil", because it's not. There are plenty of carbureted bikes out there whose stock carb settings are compromised (mostly for emissions reasons) and result in hard starting, driveability issues, lousy fuel consumption, etc. Someone who knows what they doing can straighten this out and make them run a whole lot better.
 
I think the choke was left on for a week by mistake? Would that explain how the spark plugs are fouled? Otherwise hopefully the bike will hold in there for a couple of months until i can ride it to a mechanic D:

Appreciate all the help guys thanks a lot!
 
looks like ted was right in the first place, you just left the choke on too long. the carbs should be drained now for winter.
 
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