Todd Lawton
Member
I have a 2010 M1000 that is having a problem starting when it is cold. it has about 1000 miles on it and is stock except for a trail can. It ran awesome right up until about 900 miles then gradually became harder and harder to start. I thought that it was freezing, as it would only do it after hauling it on the deck after a day of riding. The dealer assured me that it was bad fuel and to warm it up over night in the shop. I was then careful to fill up every night after riding and to add fuel conditioner and de-icer to the fuel. This did not help, the next trip out it started good the first day, second morning about 30 pulls, it was warm out, a few degrees above zero. Third day would not start 3 guys pulled their guts out on the damn thing, ended up pouring a bit of fuel down the spark plug hole and it fired right up. Rode most of the day just fine, shut it off for half an hour and same thing would not start, and it was pretty warm out. Got home and took it to the dealer, couple of weeks later I hadn't heard anything so I called to see what was up, he told me that it started up for him the next day in the shop, and that it was just bad fuel. I did not agree with him as I was very careful with the fuel, and nobody else was having any problems with the fuel, he then told me that it might be a check valve in the oil line leaking into the air box at idle. Does anyone have any ideas on what may be wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated.