how much longer should i charge the battery?

 

The charger I have has a gauge on it that tells you when its at 100%. What are you charging the battery with?

Jump your bike with a car battery. Keep the car off... if the bike doesn't start you know its the wires/fuses/starter. If it starts, its your battery.

 

Several threads around here lately that sound very similar to this where the poster swears they have a "good battery" that "tested" at ~12.x volts.

seems that every one of them ended up fixing their problems with a fresh battery that didn't have a dead or weak cell in it.

Try it in jump-start mode, (turn the car off before connecting a car battery to your bike).

Or - use jumper cables to go directly from the battery iny our bike to the postitive cable connection on the starter - bypass the solenoid/relay. Does the starter turn then?

 

another fresh new battery, fully charged, still no sound at all when i click the button. going to try jumping it with the car tomorrow....ughhh i really just want this to turn on already...

 

When you are trying to start the bike (pressing the start button and the neutral light dimming), see if the battery is getting warm to the touch. If it is, pressing the start button must be causing a short, draining the battery (neutral light dimming) and causing it to heat up. To verify this, you can hook up a voltmeter to the battery and see what it reads while you are pressing the start button. You may need to go through the wirings that you have touched/cleaned and make sure they are hooked up correctly.

I would do this first, then try to connect the battery directly to the starter, bypassing the solenoid as suggested by adrenalnjunky and lastly, try jumpstarting with a car.

 

when im pressing the start button, the battery doesnt get warm. i hooked up a voltmeter to the battery when i push the start button and the voltage doesnt change

 

That's indicating that something isn't pulling power at all. Might check voltage at the positive battery cable @ the starter while pressing the button. If no juice there, you know you have a starter relay or wiring issue.

 

+1.

 

so i had my mechanic friend come over and take a look, turns out the wiring was done horribly wrong by the guy i got the bike from. hes gonna rewire the whole bike tuesday, ill let you guys know whats up. lets hope it works

 

so far, had to replace a few parts including the r/r and starter. the r/r should come in tomorrow and the bike should get going