Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

It takes no BS about 75-100 times of electric start tries to get this thing running. Once it does get running if you hit a big bump it wants to die out, but won't because I'm at full throttle and has a chance to get going again. If at lower speeds this happens it will die out and not restart unless I use the electric start, the carb is clean and so is the gas tank.

To me it sounds like a bad float but not sure, what do you think.

Thanks Greg

Clean your carborator. Somtings cloged in their. I had same problem. Turned out to be a washer that deteriorated. As soon as I hit a bump, my bike would die.

Carb is soooooo clean I can eat out of it, however I'm not saying something else could be wrong with it. Like the the float ?

Clean it again. and again. Its the only thing that will cause normally. And the petcock sticking? dirty tank?

My bet is low compression. Fix it b/f you burn up the starter. You need a new set of rings.

noiseguy wrote:My bet is low compression. Fix it b/f you burn up the starter. You need a new set of rings.

oh man good call noise guy..totally forgot that one.

noiseguy wrote:My bet is low compression. Fix it b/f you burn up the starter. You need a new set of rings.

How would compression fall off when you hit bumps? Once I get it started it runs fine until I hit big bumps, then it wants to stall. I don't see how compression has to do with this?

Could be a bystarter problem. Check the tech docs on how to check your bystarter.

eman916 wrote:Could be a bystarter problem. Check the tech docs on how to check your bystarter.

Sounds like a carb or float problem to me, what do you think?

Dying on bumps is likely a plugged tank filter issue. Taking "75 to 100 times to start" is likely a low compression issue.