Pulling my hair out

This is driveing me nuts , at low speed rownd town ,or comeing up to a rownderbowt T' junkcion caridge way slip roads , my SD evry now and then when you leest expeckt ,Cuts out ,and makes the most orfull nois on reystart , like the starter Spragg cluch is not engaging properly ,at this rate it will need a new one on its farst service next munday have eney of you guys had this problem and is there a fix or dose it go away when the akra mapp is instaurld is it coverd under worrenty ,cheers Mark .

My dealer warned me never to touch the throttle when starting the bike or else it will make make an awful sound like the one you describe. You have to let the ecu do it's thing when turning the key and then hit the button without a hand on the throttle to get a clean start apparantly.

I've done 150 miles this evening and stalled it a few times (too used to a 4 cylinder jap bike) and each restart has been fine, but I've had to force myself not to start it with some throttle

Chris , I never do and have never done ,the throtel thing . On a start up , it is a bad habbit I dont have , I allways sart the bike up and let it do its thing to warm up wether its on choke ,or farst idell , or like this one ,it dose it for you so no need to tuch the throtel on start up I just push the buton and let it do its thing , I am just so diserpionted with it at the minit , I carnt relax on it ,for wateing for it to cut out on me

And do not hit the start button as long as the FI-light is lighting up.

Good Luck,

Marcel.

Yep, this is a common problem on 05/06 model SD's. If you mention it when you book the bike in for it's first service they will sort it out. It is a known problem and your dealer should be aware.

oh great

I am booked in at the end of June for mine to be done.

I hope they are back in stock by then