Hi All,,

Thanks for all the replies. A few clarifications though, I did own about 10 bikes in my life time, and even used to overhaul 2 stroke engines (well only the top end).


Also, when I bought the bike on Ebay, the shipper took the battery out (supposly) and the seller send me a new battery - so I did charge it out of the bike (so probably no fault there...

In regard to the garbox, trust me when I say that before writing my original post, not only that I draged the bike forward and back but also took it down a hill in first gear in order to try and start it (that's before realizing there was no spark in the plug, and Yes I do hold the plug against the cylinder head to ground it ....) The bike juts wouldnt shift to anything but neutral and first gear ONLY.

My experiences with Ebay to this point were actully mostly satisfactory. This is the frist time is really received a "lemon".

I almso used a VOM/Multimeter to check continuity/resistance and managed to isolate things up to the coil (that distributed the spark to the two plugs on the DR650). However, I did not check for resistance from the plastic "boot" to the connection on the coil - not sure what I'm supposed to read there.

Also the bike's stand switch was bypassed (wire wise) by the seller to begin with.

And yes, next time I will stick with buying only electronics on Ebay - Motorcycles I will make sure I can hear, smell, sniff.....before I buy...

THis is a great forum, thanks again,
Sagi