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    It fires up fine. The issue is the slow cranking.

    I think it may be a dodgy starter switch. Put a battery cut off in parallel and turned over fine this morning... will see again later.
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    Jon I had a similar issue with my old GS, it was -12 outside though.
    Battery took forever to fire the engine into life, is the bike kept outside overnight? I know this can affect the battery on these quite badly, when mine was garaged there was no issue but a couple of nights out in the cold and it didn't want to know.

    Mine was the battery dying even though it was 2 months old, dealer replaced it FOC but yours might be a different issue.
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    sounds more like a tired starter to me, once fired the tolerances are greater, as outer casings and bushes are warm, take it of clean it up and oil it up, worse case its time lost best you may fix it not too difficult to strip, will allow you to clean the main contacts too, try shorting the solenoid when cold to eliminate the start button.
     
     

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    Cheers guys. That's very interesting Dan. Mine's kept in a garage... the minus 12 I remember.... I was using two batteries to crank the mini over then. The oil was freezing up in the sump!!!! (I know coz I left a sample of oil outside - went to look the next day and it was treacle)

    I'm coming to a similar conclusion Gooz. I've jury rigged a manual starter relay in order to eliminate the relay as the issue. Will see how it goes. If it still playes up I'm gonna have to try to strip the motor or buy another....
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    Likey this!!!

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    I'm thinking tired starter...
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    Now it's totaly feking died....

    The starter is rotating but not the engine. Ar5e!!!

    This is apparently common on GS500's.
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    Alternator has come adrift!!!!!

    AR5E!!!!
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    ouch hopefully not taking any casing etc with it ??? last thing you want is a full strip down to find filings
     
     

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    Luckily it stayed on the crankshaft. However it's knarled the taper it sits on so that'll have to be dressed in both parts before refitting.
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