She's No For Starting- Help!

Check the battery voltage
Sounds like a flat battery.

 

Will it bump start ?

 

Worth trying.

 

Had pretty much similar, bought a second hand 2012 Bonneville, had it about a month. One day after a 40 minute ride out. Stopped for coffee and eats, came back after an hour...... click, nothing.
Jumped started bike, got it home, but no amount of charging would bring the battery back to life.
New battery and back to normal.

 

Cobbled hill sounds good, but you might need a mate with you in case you have to push it back up the cobbles.
Give it a go, my Bonnie started every time when I had to bump start, smart charger and new battery is probably the answer along with a thorough check on the battery connections.

 

Ask the guy from the Hovis advert, he'll help you

 

Have you checked the handlebar kill switch Dan ?

 

Can you jump start it from another battery?

 

Starting System Symptoms:

Weak battery symptoms:
-- Slow cranking.
-- Stops cranking suddenly on compression stroke with button pressed.
-- Starts when starter button is released at end of cranking.
Repair:
-- Charge/Test/Replace battery.
Failure Modes:
-- Loss of capacity. Appears to charge, voltage good but no reserve for starting.
-- Won't hold a charge.
-- Low voltage/cell failure.
Preventative Maintenance:
-- Check fluid levels regularly
-- Maintain full charge: Regular riding, trickle charger.

Ignition Coil failure symptoms:
-- Hard starting/misfiring during cranking.
-- Rough idle that can't be tuned out with carb adjustments and carb cleaning.
-- Idle misfire clears with new sparkplugs, returns in a few hundred miles
Repair:
-- Replace: Preferably with Nology for higher reliability than stock Gill coils.
Failure Mode:
-- Shorted turns in secondary resulting in weak spark.
Preventative Maintenance:
-- None
Testing:

Pickup Coil failure symptoms:
-- No spark at all
-- Spark quits with engine hot, returns when engine cool.
-- Note: Pickup coil failure is total. There is no random misfire spark loss.
Repair:
-- Replace pickup coil
Failure mode:
-- Thermal intermittant with long (15-30 minute) period.
Preventative Maintenance:
-- None. Get a spare.
Testing:
-- Ohms checks hot and cold.

Worn starter symptoms:
-- Sometimes won't crank until the bike is rocked in gear.
-- Excessively noisy cranking with a grinding sound.
-- Click from under seat but no cranking.
Failure Mode:
-- Brush wear progressing to commutator damage.
-- Bearing failure related to brush wear.
Repair:
-- Rebuild or replace.
Preventative Maintenance:
-- Maintan battery in peak condition.
-- Follow proper starting procedures. Neutral, clutch in.
-- Crank 5-10 seconds at a time max., switch off for twice as long before cranking again.

Worn sprag clutch symptoms:
-- Very loud rattling when cranking
-- Starter spins but engine doesn't turn
Falure Mode:
-- Breakage
Repair:
-- Replace sprag clutch
Preventative Maintenance:
-- Maintain battery in peak condition.
-- Follow proper starting procedures. Neutral, clutch in.

Worn starter solenoid:
-- Click from under seat but no cranking.
-- Won't crank after rocking bike.
-- Starter continues to run after bike starts and won't stop until the battery is disconnected.
Failure mode:
-- Internal contact damage resulting in non-conduction.
-- Internal contact damage resulting in contacts welding shut.
-- Internal damage/wear prevents solenoid core movement.
Preventative Maintenance:
-- None.
Repair:
-- Replace starter solenoid.
Testing:
-- For no cranking, short across solenoid high-power terminals. Normal operation denotes failed solenoidcontacts.

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Hope you copied and pasted all that

 

So do I otherwise for a Scotsman at 11.30 pm on a Saturday night that's just a waste of unit pricing on alcohol !!! lol

 

My prime suspect - especially at this time of year - is the side-stand switch. Check the plunger is not seized in its depressed position (you will need the sidestand up and a pair of pliers to wiggle it out). The cure is a WD40 bath with much more of the aforementioned wiggling then packing with dielectric grease. And, obviously, pull the rubber cap to clean/grease the piston switch.
Second string suspect is the clutch plunger switch.