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recently dropped my bike lightly in the garage , engine turns but wont fully turnover , plugs look good were wet,fuses all work ,kill switch is off and the bikes in neutral , any suggestions? battery is fully charged

Check out ...

... that the cylinder(s) haven't filled with oil or gas. Pull the plugs and run it over on the starter untill nothing comes shooting out of the plug holes.

.... got spark? If so, good. If not, you have to find out why. Could be a sticky tip-over switch, a battery or coil connection that got knocked loose, maybe the kill switch got damaged and is killing the juice... check anything that even looks like a wire. What side did it fall on? The kickstand killswitch could be damaged, so could the clutch kill switch. How's the battery? did it spill all it's acid? Does it have a full charge? Gotta have sparkage...

.... is it getting fuel? Maybe the fall knocked the float and jammed it closed. Maybe there is some positon-sensitive fuel cut-off that is not resetting.... once again, Gotta have fuel....

Good Luck, eh.

Argh. So here's another story. Actually, I oddly have a 95 Nighthawk 750 as well...

So I get home from my commute on the bike and sort of at the last minute, decided in a moment of genius to head for a parking spot I'd pretty much already passed. I was going very very slowly. Before I knew it, yep, there's that vital center of gravity tipping point I'd wondered about the past few months...

...I very gently laid the bike on it's side, and was on my feet the whole time. After getting my wits and figuring out what happened, hit the kill switch, and got the bike back up and on it's kickstand with a little leg effort. I'm fine. The bike has some extremely minor damage from what I can tell looking in limited dayling if you look very closely on the front brake lever, and an ever so small fuzzing of the plastic on the side of the windshield. Not sure if the rear break lever may have bent slightly when the weight of the bike was on it or not, I may just be paranoid, but I'll check that out when there's more daylight tomorrow.

When starting her up again about an hour later, bike made slight burping sound and it seemed to take a couple revs to get all four cylinders firing properly again, but then sounded normal.

The catch is, she's actually for sale right now, and of course any postings I have don't mention anything about ever being dropped because it just happened a few hours ago.

I guess my question is, if I get her out on the road to make sure everything is operating the same as before, do I ethically need to say the bike has been "dropped" in any advertisements? If so, is this something that is going to nail me in terms of price I can actually ask now?

ericvano wrote:I guess my question is, if I get her out on the road to make sure everything is operating the same as before, do I ethically need to say the bike has been "dropped" in any advertisements?

I'd suggest modifying any descriptions you can (online). And explain any damage that's been done. People understand that bikes get dropped from time to time. Any damage might hurt the price you can get, but the fact that it's been down isn't too bad.

Be honest with all potential buyers!

ericvano wrote: do I ethically need to say the bike has been "dropped" in any advertisements? If so, is this something that is going to nail me in terms of price I can actually ask now?

You don't ethically have to say whether or not it's been dropped in the ad. I will be willing to wager that anyone calling you about the bike is going to ask that question pretty quickly. From that point, your ethics can guide you.

It's pretty easy to tell if a bike has been dropped, unless you replace everything that touched the ground. I wouldn't worry about it much. Just honestly explain that it was a low speed tip. Evidence on the bike will bear that out.

Lastly, you might regret selling that Nighthawk. Just about everyone I know that has ever sold one, wishes they had it back

Thanks for the advice guys. No question I'll let people know it's been down, just didn't know how loudly I needed to shout it in ads - I'll def mention it. It was really an o crap moment; very pretty bike. Really not that much happened to it, but still, I felt like a tool more than anything.