Check engine light!
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From: Iowa City, IA
Just because your battery reads in a good range doesn't mean that it is good. If the battery is bad it can still read good, but fail under a load. I am going through the same problem. Take the battery out and take it to someone who can load test it. A load tester is a set of cables hooked up to a heater w/ a volt meter. When the button is squeezed the battery heats up the heater and you can see on the meter the voltage drop. How much it drops and how it recovers proves if the battery is good or not. A low battery does throw out a code and service engine light will come on. Continuously trying to start your bike with a low battery can gauld your starter due to kickback of the flywheel. After you get a new battery the code will still come up as a "history," code. If you plug in your bike you can erase the history so it won't show up anymore unless it is a new one. I'd load test and plug in before I did anything else.
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