[benscool1]

OK, all this sounds good to me. He's gonna plan on taking it to one of his family members who is a bike mechanic and have him fix the carbs and everything. It's a fun job trying to get it started at first w/the chocke because the choke lever is broken off, so you have to use pliers to hold the choke on, lol. I think when we take the carbs apart I'm either going to weld a new choke lever onto it, or he may just end up buying a different set of carbs on ebay if worse comes to worse.

So does anybody have any other ideas on what would cause it to not hold a charge now besides the battery? When we start it we usually jump it but as soon as we disconnect the cables it will die, unless we're revving it above 2500 RPMS or so. I thought it could be the stator or something(I don't know much about bikes, like I said so I just assumed) so we took the stator cover off and looked at it, and everything looked fine to us(but like I said, I didn't really know what I was looking for). Everything looked to be in good condition, no loose wires or whatever. The battery was new last summer but now that I think about it, I don't think we followed directions when we initially charged it. I think once you filled the battery up the directions said to let it sit for about an hour or so...well we didn't do that. I think we let it go for about 15 minutes until it said it was fully charged and then put it in. Damn impatient kids, lol. Could that have something to do with it as well?