Flooded?

[Robjack]

Got a rear puncture on the way home from work last week. No biggie, just laid it over and swapped it for the spare. The problem came when I tried to restart, wouldn't have it no matter how much I kicked it over. I suspected it was flooded, so took out the plug and expected to see it wet from all the kicking etc, but it was bone dry which threw me a bit (was a lovely chocolate brown colour btw). More kicking over ended in me snapping the kick start lever next to the bolt *sigh*. So I pushed it to the brow of a hill and bumped and bumped repeatedly until it eventually coughed into life and I got home. The bike is normally ultra reliable and a second kick starter from cold by the way. Also for info, it wasn't laid flat, just resting on my jacket covered helmet so it was just enough to raise the wheel.

So was it flooded or was it something else? Would you expect the plug to be wet if it was or am I mistaken here?

[rab]

You could have had an airlock in the fuel line from tipping it over stopping the fuel getting through

[henri]

my chokes cables broke ,so to start it from cold i lean it over to the right for 10 secs to flood it , works a treat , so most probably the scoot was flooded , H

[Robjack]

Thanks for the replies fellas. Whatever it was, it hopefully won't happen again as I've bought one of these so I won't have to lay it down in future.