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Went for a quick ride yesterday and fouled a spark plug, last resort your stranded

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Posted by: PILL PUSHER---------------------

any way to start your bike? 2000 CR 250 and I started and stopped several times waiting and helping my dad. The one time I don't have my pack with my plug it happens.

I kicked it until I was dehydrated and tried to push start/coast downhill several times to no avail. I had to take his bike back to my house and get a plug, fired up on the second kick.

In the future if this were to happen again is there any way to get the rascal to start if the plug is fouled?


Posted by: Bodge---------------------

You could take the time to properly jet it and not have to worry about fouling a plug.


Posted by: Zoomer---------------------

Your situation sounds like your plug was to far gone.
I have started foul plug bikes by lifting the cap of the plug and letting it set on top, this produces a hotter spark, and might start a bike with a bad plug. Might!..


Posted by: battles2a5---------------------

I used to carry a little bit of sandpaper w/ me that I would use on fouled plugs. However, this was in my pack which would also have had plugs.


Posted by: tyesai---------------------

I don't ever go out into the woods without a new plug, wrench, zip ties, and a camel back full of water. I did it one time and that was all it took for me to learn. Nothing sucks more than falling over half way up a hill, bulldoging it back down in the middle of summer with NO water and still being twenty or so minutes away from the truck. I also have fouled out a plug and had to wait for over an hour for a new one. Never ever ever again.


Posted by: Jeff Gilbert---------------------

I find it best to just not go in the woods


Posted by: LoriKTM---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Gilbert
I find it best to just not go in the woods


Yeah, and I remember riding practice the morning of a MX race many, many years ago and I cold-fouled the plug on my bike at the FAR side of the track. No need for a fanny pack, I was on a MX track! So I had to push the bike all the way back to the pits, which was probably at least 1/2 mile, none of it flat.

Any more, I don't ride without a spare plug and a wrench, no matter where I'm going.


Posted by: tyesai---------------------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Gilbert
I find it best to just not go in the woods


Woods riding has helped me more than anything as far as general bike control. Besides, riding around the same track all day is like buying a Gold Wing and just riding it around the same half mile block for a hundred miles. No fun.

Woo Hoo, cleared that jump again for the forty first time today. This sure is cool, here comes that same turn that I have gone around over and over again.

So you know I am not dissing you. I love the track, but I also love the woods. I need them both.


Posted by: tx246---------------------

jeff does just fine in the woods but he is always looking around for the groomed jumps.



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