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It's been a looooong time since I've even tried to start it.
Other than the obvious, battery on the charger, fresh fuel, likely a carb clean is there anything I should look at to get it started and on the road again?
The battery right now hasn't even enough to even get the fuel pump to make it's 'little sound' when I turn it on, I have it on the tender right now, even when it did run there wasn't enough 'juice' to start it, I'd been 'kicking' it.
I'm not too mechanically inclined so I'm hoping just a shot of carb cleaner in the intake will get it going and I have seafoam in the fuel.
Am I going about this correctly?

I have also checked that there are no critters nesting and living inside it :headache:
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How long has it sat? Change the oil.
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About 10 months to a year, seafoam was added then primarily because I wasn't riding it much anyway, in fact I've put less than 1000 miles on it since the spring of '09 when I got my Buddy.....
It would just sit there and whimper every time I walked past it to get to the Buddy :-<
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