Oh CRAP !! I wish I hadn't been offered then watched this video. At first I thought, cool trick, good idea -- as I was about to take my bike out for the first ride of the Spring today. 2013 BMW F800 GT, with electronic fuel injection. On this bike, the kill switch and starter switch are the same switch -- opposite sides of the same switch, so not possible to leave the kill switch off and also turn over the engine. So, I thought, use the full-throttle technique described here. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Engine roared to life immediately to red-line. I snapped the throttle shut, but fear the damage was already done -- whatever that may be. Suffice to say, don't trust or assume (as I did) that just because your bike is fuel injected, this fuel throttle "trick" will work on your bike allowing you to crank the engine, without starting.

Great tip Scott. And here I was, feeling guilty about not starting my bike each month this winter.

Everything aways explained clearly and concisely, and for 'mechanically challenged' GW owners like me, easy to understand! Subscribed!👍

Good advice Scott. Cheers from (unfortunately still) snowy Montreal, Canada!

Good information. My dad taught me that way back in the 70's! Thanks Scott!

Good maintenance tip there! I'm fortunate enough to live in an area where we ride our bikes in the winter months more than summer, because the AZ desert is smoking hot from about mid-May to mid-October easily. I can light off my GL1800 and jump on to go for a quick rip up the highway. Thanks man!

Great advice have a 2015 F6B Honda and will definitely do that before I start it for the first time.👍

Great advice there. bring on the warm spring eve,we all need decent riding therapy.. 👍🇬🇧

I have a 2022 Indian Scout and I tried opening the throttle all the way before startup as you demonstrated for fuel injected engines. It backfired once and roared to life before I could shut it down. It was painful. I hope I didn't scorch an injector. Time will tell. It has a kill switch when on activates an electric fuel pump and allows the engine to crank and run. The engine will not crank without the kill switch on. As far as I can see there is no way to just crank the engine over without it starting. I could take off the plug wires I guess, but then I would probably be dumping fuel into the cylinders.

YES! Spot on! Excellent video, I always do exactly as you said.

Good tip Scott, as always. Last summer found a total mint '93 1500. After about 15 bikes in over 55 years, and 3rd GW, had not heard of this tip. Central MN is trying to come out of winter, and a few bikes now are showing up on the road. Thanks again for all the Great tips and enjoy a Blessed and safe riding season. Shinny side UP. Jack

In Florida we stop during the summer as it is too hot except at nights

I work in Natural Gas industry, with multi thousand HP compression. All of our equipment have pre-lube and post-lube pumps. For your exact reasons. If passenger car/bikes had these, engines would last much much longer!

First time my bike has sat for so long - thanks for the tip

Excellent and informative video brother, thank you for producing it and sharing it. As a alternative to holding the throttle open and staring can I lift the rear wheel and spin it manually in first gear to get lubrication throughout the engine block? Thank you again for your video. I just became a subscriber of your channel.

Goldwing owners should heed your advice not to start their engines if they don't intend to ride their bikes. The same applies to aircraft owners! With STA-BIL fogging oil sprayed in the cylinders in the fall, my 2002 GL1800A hibernates with fresh storage oil (30W) over the winter. Come spring, with fresh synthetic, a new oil filter installed, and the plugs removed, I crank her over at full throttle till the oil light goes out. After installing cleaned plugs, the engine is good to go. I regularly used a pre-oiler on my Navion's Continental E-225 engine before flying her after an extended storage. The pre-oiler was easy to make and use; it's too bad there's nothing like that for the Goldwing.

I run full synthetic oil and winter the bike in a heated storage space have never had a problem .Also the crank,primary and gear box oil is changed with fresh fluids before being put away. In spring I run it maybe 1500 miles and change the crank oil and filter and primary for the riding season.

Great video Scott

Thanks, very smart advice that I'm going to follow. Can we do the same by un-plugging the spark plugs? Any concerns about cycling old winetr oil?

I'm hoping you will do a video on heater failure on the seat and hand grips. I have a 2007 gl 1800.

Thank you for the tips.

Just send it to me in So Cal, I will run it any day of the year free of charge.

Great as always

Or, if you ride 55yr old bikes like me just stroke kick pedal through several times with ignition off until oil light goes out.

That sir is excellent advice

Pretty interesting I've been riding motorcycles from Dirt bikes, crotch rockets and then Harley's for 40 years and I live in an area where the average winter is 25 to 55 degrees with 4-6 inches of snow on some days and on some days its in the 60's and all I've done to my bikes when I'm not riding them is start them up for 10-15 minutes let them idle and then give them a little rev and shut them off and I've never experienced any problems with my bikes ever. I keep them on a battery tender in between rides regardless of weather all year round and again never had any types of problems with any of my bikes. Hmmm? maybe I've just been lucky all these years or maybe this stuff only pertains to below zero weather??. Regardless thank you for sharing and ride safe.

My 1500 will start w/o using the choke .it can be completely closed...turn the key on,hit the start button...and it starts.

Thanks!

A little addition for riders of historic bikes: If you have no electric starter on your bike, srew out the ignition plugs and kick the engine over several times to pump the oil into the cylinder heads. That will do the job fine enough. (This procedure is not necessary for two stroke bikes as they are oiled with the fuel and there are no long oil tubes to be filled up first.) If you have for example one of the old British bikes with a dry sump, this sump will not be dry any more but in most cases all the oil in the oil tank will have flown down into the sump after a few weeks or even month. (You will see it when checking the oil level in the oil tank.) Here you have to drain the oil out the sump first and but it back into the oil tank. That way you avoid over-pressuring the crankcase when starting the engine the first time. After that turn the engine over with the kick starter (no plugs) untill the oil has reached the cylinder heads as you would do with any wet sump motor.

I am so glad that you let people know to NOT start their bikes through the winter storage time to "exercise them." DANGER, WILL ROBINSON. It'll do a lot more harm than good. Also, for those storing their scoots for the winter. it is good to throw some SeaFoam in the tank as well.

You are the GL1500 Guru.

Hi this is not video related but what tires do you recommend for a 07 Goldwing 1800 the miles I put on it is all highway thanks

Who they hell leaves their bike totally abandoned all winter? There are always days to ride, unless you're up in Northern Canada or Alaska, or in the high mountains. And even then, you can start the bike and let it warm up once in a while. Otherwise, this was over 7 minutes to say what could be said in two or three, and by the way the cams and rockers are still under full valve spring pressure even if combustion isn't happening.

Kill switch off and crank the engine.this will prime the oil. Not all bikes will crank with kill switch off.the 1500 isn't one of them I,ve taken engines apart that have sat for a year and found oil still in the lower bearings.so it's simply a case by case scenario The heads will definitely be dry,so pre priming when you can is optimal. (Tech for 42 yrs retired)

Where did you get your get you hand grips

With my '86 1200 I always start it with your method if it has not been run for 24 Hours Choke off...kill Switch off...Crank the Engine until the Oil Light goes off then Crank with Choke and kill Switch on.....Throttle left at Idle...the Engine fires....but does not Backfire...which means there was no Fuel drawn into it..

Maybeso mention the rubber bands driving the cams , some ride all winter too.

Is it a good idea to do this every time you start the bike?

Hairstyle looks amazing, Scott 👍🏻

My GL 1500 starts without a choke and is always a little accelerated in RPM, could it be that the cable is stuck?

I have this exact bike but I just want to be clear before doing my spring start up. Is the choke supposed to be in the down or up position? I'm confused where at 3:59 you said "don't open the choke" but then at 4:12 you said "leave the choke wide open"....thanks!

Hello, do you recommend removing the engine oil all winter? And how about the gasoline in the carburetors? do we let it evaporate? Should I leave the fuel tank full or empty? Thank you.

I dare not hold the throttle wide open before I crank for fear that it would actually start and I hit the rev limiter on my dry bike. Will this technique work for ALL fuel injection bikes?

Startup disaster is way down at the bottom of my worry list. People have rode the same bike for decades and haven't experienced the disaster. Do you have some examples of the disaster? You are overthinking it.

Confirmed: Works on 2016 GL1800

Oil gets everywhere within a second on modern motorcycles. Your info is dated 1950's

Well after fifty years riding bikes I think I’ll just take the risk. More danger to engine/bike in just road riding, so I’m not worried about this so called wear.

Raised blinking school bus type light on front of motorcycle might prevent alot of accidents..

Someone is overdue for a haircut!! I will be getting mine cut again this week...... the second time this winter. You haven't had a cut since summer?? Hahaha 😊 Good advice on the oil and starting!! 👍👌

Turn kill switch to off , crank engine. Put kill switch back to run and then start

EFI engines will start with a fully open throttle, just so you know. Instant redline on a cold engine yay

Would full throttle, no start work on a 2019 DCT?

This does not work on a 2014 KTM 690 Duke, I know, I just tried it.

Thanks, Scott. Does the wide-open throttle trick also work with the very latest generation of Goldwings?

Change filters & oil, new plugs - leave the plugs out & crank the engine. Remember to earth the ht leads of you'll fuck up youre CDI

you can avoid that by riding all year. im in ohio and dont own a car. so i ride all year. theres almost no winter anymore.

It seems that this procedure would be Apporiate for the First Start of the Day.

Or start it every now and again

Watch me start my bike without watching this video.

My bike can not crank with the bike killswitch turned off .. I did not know you could hold the hold the throttle and then try to start and the ecu would not allow it .. I will try this when spring comes!

I just run my bikes all year round rain snow ice idc i have a 2000 aspencade an a 1999 pan European

Just ride all year. Problem solved 🙂

5- 10 seconds ahh no way.

Who starts their motorcycle and goes within 5-10 seconds

Add Lucas and forget this fear mongering.

You can also just pull the spark plug wires off...