Bike forever to start!!

ok, heres the problem. after eveytime i ride my bike..i leave it in my house and the next day when i bring the bike outside and try to start it..it would take forever to start..i have to press on the electric start button for like 4 secs and sometimes it would start but i have to give it a lil throttle otherwise it would just shut off. but after warming it up and riding it for awhile..the bike would start right up everytime..i think the cold weather might have to do something about it but i'm not sure.

4 sec is not a long time. Think about how long it takes to start a car or truck that isnt warmed up.

i know this might sound n00bish, but are you using your choke ?

4 seconds is very normall for a first start of the bike.... it takes me around 4 seconds to start the bike after i ride it i dont even keep my finger on the electric start for 1second and it starts right up....

so dw its not really a long time and we all have it ...

mine only takes about 2 sec to start in the morning after that i just pull the cord once and ill start since its warm alredy, well i dont want to fry my starter too quick since i havent seen nobody that sells them, actually does anyone sell the starters?????

ok thanks guy. i thought it wasnt normal for it to take that long to start, thats why i wanna check it out with you guys.

oh boy, it takes me like 20secs to start, i just keep holding the electric start and giving it throtle acouple of times till this bike starts to move. So am i suppose to use the choke?

thats the point of the choke , put it on if its cold, crank it if it starts move it to the middle and it shold stay on if not leave it in the middle and crank again with a little gas and ill start

4 seconds is normal. probably if you clean your spark a little it might help

just so im clear...

closing the choke means closing the hole in between the filter and carb correct? or does that mean opening up the hole?

on my setup (see avatar) if i have the lever all the way down (which i think closes off the hole) i can start it and it will run. BUT if i try to rev it wiill start to die (this is right correct?)

so i move the lever up just a tad bit and it will run fine.

is this typical? i have the stock carb....

yes, with the choke closed. you have no air coming in to the carb.
it will idle but die with throttle.

No, it won't necessarily die, but it will drag terribly (it happened to me one time when I left the choke closed haha) and it has horrible response and power, I'd say opening it 7/8 of the way or 1/8 closed. That's what I normally do.

lol... thanks for the replies but i figured it out that day!

but good stuff for the archives.....