MOPED ARMY

i have. same deal. maxi sat for 30 yrs. it was a little more involved. wiring was mashed once i corrected that, and found my spark. cleaned carb not once but 3 times because i obviously didn't do it well enough. it started. rode around 5 miles. heating all that old carbon. went to start it again it was hard to start, but it did. it didn't make it a half block, and died. another hard start then died....turned out, it was a clogged exhaust...cleaned all the holes in the baffle most being completely closed off. also clean exhaust port while i had the pipe off. put it back together. thing fired right up ran like a dream. still runs strong to this day, and i've had it 12 yrs. its the process of elimination. that bike being one of the first bikes i bought really made me work to get it going....but that one bike really helped me for future trouble shooting. so did you check spark before just assuming it is the condenser? 13yrs and owner of 30 runners, 10s of thousands of miles, i've only replace 2 condensers. hope this helps.

Yeah I wouldn’t say it was the condenser either unless it’s not a stock bosch condenser they’re pretty much bulletproof it’s probably that little screen filter being blocked in the banjo fitting on the carburetor or petcock blocked

But yeah make sure your points are cleaned and your timed to specs all that stuff

So after looking in depth to why it wasn’t starting I checked the carb again and made sure the banjo wasn’t clogged which it wasn’t. I checked to make sure I had spark which I did. Then I checked the points which that was the issue. It wasn’t moving at all. I adjust the top point and clean both of them really good. I tried starting it and bam started right up first kick. I checked and set the point gap. I used the cereal box zig zag method. It ran beautifully. Thank you both for the helpful tips. Much love!!

right on! ken is the best! beautiful bike!

Good you got it sussed , but , how could you have spark if the points were stuck , not moving ?