Bike didn't start!

[His Dudeness]

So that's how i parked the bike in the photo this morning, up on the centre stand instead of the sidestand.


Put the key in, hit the start button with no choke.......and it started straight off, no problem at all.


I'm still thinking fuel related so what would cause it to not start being on the sidestand?


Sidestand switch has been bypassed, so it's nothing to do with that, plus the sidestand was down as well anyway when it started up.

You said rocking the bike back and forth seems to make it start so I was thinking your floats or float valves might be sticking and rocking it frees them up so the carbs can fill and the bike starts. Parking it an angle on the side stand would be putting a small bit of sideways pressure on the float and float valves and making them stick worse whereas if the bike's parked upright then there's no sideways pressure on them they're less likely to stick. It's a long shot but I can't think of any other reason rocking it would make it start.