DT125R ARCHIVE

All the other electrics work but when you click the starter button it just clicks?
Try charging the battery (not enough oooomfff to spin it over)
Or if when you tried to start your bike up you held the electric start button on for longer then a few seconds you may have over heated your starter motor and knackered it up

Check voltage of the battery with the ignition off
Less than 12.5V??
Charge it up (I personally recommend a trickle charger, a car charger can/will significantly lower the life expectancy of your battery)

Or just do a kickstart conversion and save yourself the hassle

Starter motor isn't getting enough juice to turn it over but yet cleaning the carb will make it run?
That doesn't make sense to me..
The likely reason the bike didn't want to start at the garage was because the carb's float bowl was drained dry and now the bike is 'clicking' because you drained the battery trying to start it up with no fuel at the garage

Charge the battery up (trickle charger as suggested) and if you run into any problems later on with running/flat spots/bogging down/backfiring or anything else then maybe clean the carb but until then it's an unnecessary task..

But did it click when trying to start it up?
That does make sense if it just keeps cranking and nothing happens.. But this isn't even cranking
Also the DTR has some filters on the fuel tap straws and in my experience they work very well at preventing sh*t getting dragged in to the carb

Also going from ON to RESERVE for me took the absolute p*ss, many a times I've been sat at the side of the road for 5-10 minutes waiting for the carb to fill up because if I didn't I'd just be cranking the bike over and over doing nothing

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Starter motor isn't getting enough juice to turn it over but yet cleaning the carb will make it run?
That doesn't make sense to me..
The likely reason the bike didn't want to start at the garage was because the carb's float bowl was drained dry and now the bike is 'clicking' because you drained the battery trying to start it up with no fuel at the garage

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sounds like the problem to me thanks gincat i will check the battery

I got a similar problem with my dt125re 05 model.. Basically it works when it wants to but theres a high pitched zzz sound, with mine, i found out its my starter motor not spinning out and i normally bump start it easy ... well if its warm if not takes me about 3 attempts... i've been told to take my starter motor out and give it a good clean and that should do the trick, dont know if yours is the same problem, but i'm putting a kickstart on this week make my life easier haha

urm basically you need the kickstart and the kickstart shaft will all the bits and bobs that go on it, and the idler gear :) if you need a full list you need:
kickstart lever
nut
oil seal
spring guide
return spring
washer
kcikstart pinion
friction clip
kickstart shaft
circlip (2)
thrust washer (2)
idler gear

Haynes manual has its uses, i picked all mine up from my local garage for about £45 so not too bad :)