Not yet.

Yesterday was a lovely day. It was a good day for a motorcycle ride. I thought "Now that it is warm and dry, I will try again to start my motorcycle." I got my coat and my helmet and my gloves and my keys and strided purposefully into the parking lot, hopeful that I would be successful where I was unsuccessful this weekend. I tried the ignition- and got absolutely nothing. I was puzzled about this until I realized that I'd left the bike in "park" when we'd left it last, and didn't notice the tailight was on because it was that cloudy daylight that always causes me to not notice when parking lights are on. Damn. So- then I waged battle with the rusty screws that hold my battery in. Because the lot in which I park is a block and a half away from my home, this took a lot of walking back and forth. I retrieved two different screwdrivers, a scissors (for some reason the previous owner had secured the battery with a zip tie), and finally a can of WD-40. In the end, I reliquished the task to S4's superior manliness. I hate that, but sometimes I have to do that with stubborn spaghetti sauce jars, too. Maybe one day I'll be tough enough.

So now the battery has sat on the charger, and I will give it another try after work today.

To be continued.

Hrm.

So, I replaced the battery this afternoon. And the bike started right up. Yay! Except it died as quickly as it started. And then I tried it again, and it did a little better, though it still needed revving to keep it from stalling. One of the pipes was also backfiring or popping some. I revved a bit and it seemed to stop doing that. Okay. And then I realized that gasoline was spewing from somewhere below the tank. Eek. Engine on the whole seemed much much much happier when the bike was upright instead of on its side stand, so... fuel line problems of some kind? I really have no idea. Gasoline stopped spewing (at least that I could tell) when I stopped the engine.
Any ideas, oh ye more mechanically inclined than me? Echoegami mentioned it sounds like I may need a new fuel filter, which might also explain the low idle. Blah.