Motorbike starting issues due to wiring?

Question

I've took my motorbike to pieces to do some repairs to it. I have no idea about wiring and thought I could just reconnect everything by memory.

When reconnecting I ended up with a yellow with wire/green track and a green wire that I couldn't find a connection point for.

My bike now won't start. Power is going to solenoid and when trying to start it just makes 1 click. Battery is fully charged and the lights don't dim when I try to start it. But the engine doesn't turn over at all.

Is this wire important?? What does it do?? Or should I be looking for other issues?? Apart from them 2 wires all electrics seem good and the bike is mechanically sound.

Any advice?? Ideas??

Tim D · Accepted Answer

Give the make and model of your bike.

Include where the wires are in the loom.

Best chance is to download a circuit diagram, look up the wire colours and you can identify where they are supposed to connect (if at all some looms have excess wires for ancillaries).

EDIT
According to my Haynes manual there is a Yellow/White exiting the light switch and connecting to a fuse. and green  from the horn (among others) can you be more specific about the component your errant wires are attached to?

Candid Chris · Answer

Best to ave a Shop Manual when doing your own work on your bike.
Try to find an online wiring diagram (a colored one if possible), trace down those two wires as any of us on this site would be guessing and you are already in a mess.

? · Answer

Yo dude: each line is like a wire, dude. Ya just gotta work through it. A meter may or may not help, since you don't know basic electricity. Understanding the difference between series and parallel circuits is a good place to start. You can buy a kiddie electricity experimenter kit and teach yourself. You can buy books on how motorcycles, like, work, dude, including their electrics.

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