Irratic hard starting

[terwine]

I want to share a problem solved: Bike would not start by cranking although it would most of the time when only bumping the starter initially followed by cranking at open throttle--most of the time. If not, let it set 10 minutes and try again. Once started, it ran fine. Today I installed an ebay replacement of the ignition coil sensors with plate with perfect results. Seems to me that one of the pickups must have been bad and sparking only 50% of time--critical during starting as it led to flooding if it didn't start immediately. This was a progressing problem making it especially difficult to diagnose.

[Mr Jensee]

Your fix will be appreciated by anyone else on here with similar starting problems. Thanks for posting.