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Recently purchased this bike, it has 6,400 miles on it, leather looks brand new, no chips or weathering anywhere. The thing is in absolutely pristine condition. Anyway, I had a problem with its idle for the first few days until I adjusted the idle knob and put in some seafoam. The bike now idles rather than dying most of the time, however there are intermittent killing problems. From the advice I've received this is likely the carb needing to be cleaned given it has been sitting for ages.

Earlier today, I parked the bike for about 90 seconds while making a phone call. . . nothing on the starter. Nothing on the kickstart. Hammered on the kick for about 20 minutes, finally had to roll it down a hill and pop the clutch to get it going. Battery has no juice immediately after parking, the previous owner replaced battery to sell, checked it, looks new.

Any suggestions you guys/gals could shoot my way would be wonderful.

2 things
do lights come on when you try to start it?
if so check connection to starter/solenoid/etc

if no lights at all
check fuses and wiring, you're grounding out somewhere

i suspect that in bump starting it you jiggled a connection back into the correct position.
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Dude check your charging system. Suzuki is known for having electrical problems. If the battery dies after you park it you are not charging wile you ride it. Put a multimeter to the battery and wile the bike is running at idle record the voltage. Then rev it to 5k rmps and record the voltage. It should rise over 1V. If it does not check your stator or regulator rectifier.