Advice on a geared bike and other advice needed

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I have had it with this bike, had it a week it going 50mph earlier, it cuts out on me and made the bike jump forward almost causing me to crash and it won't start at all, got some help getting it back.

10 mins before I noticed the rev counter was bouncing up and down and that the indicator light was flickering, I tried to get it home but broke down close to home.

No lights come on now when turning it on.

Got no choice but to get it fixed, just hope it's not costly, then it's going to be sold.

Very unreliable to break down less than 3 weeks after a MOT.

 

could be the battery playing up?

 

No, it's got a brand new one that I had to fit when I got it as it wouldn't start when it arrived.

 

I'm guessing it's the charging system? I bet it's gonna be a costly repair. I intend of trying to reclaim this from the seller as he has clearly sold me a faulty bike, it's been playing up since I got it last week.

 

yeah my next guess would be charging system, a reg/rec isnt so expensive

 

Will it have fried the battery do you think? I hope not as it's brand new.

 

no, probably flat. if the battery is totally flat it could be screwed, charging systems tend to stop working when the go wrong, so the batt goes flat

 

Well that was embarrasing, seems my positive battery wire had somehow disconnected and also I ran out of fuel, I have never done that and why it happened is I've had this bike for about a week and a half and the gauge was showing it had fuel but as I had only used it briefly 3 times I didn't think anything of it. The fuel gauge is faulty. It's back on the road now.