Still deprived of sports bikes :-(

 

Waiting to hear what went wrong with my Street Triple, whose lights
started dimming the other night, and which then conked out with a near-
dead battery.

Luckily close to home, and a jump start and plenty of revs got me
home. Subsequent investigation showed a charge rate of 17-18v. Not
good. Looks like the reg/rec, but I can't understand why the battery
should run down if the thing is *over* charging. Anyway, it's under
warranty.

And next week my Duke will be back on the road with a newly restored
fuel tank. Rotten bottom section chopped out, new metal welded in,
refinished, repainted, and ready to go. Bad news is the bill of over
£500, but there you go.

But right now, the sun is shining and I don't have a decent bike for
hooning.

<fx: light bulb!>

But there's always the 400 Four.....

 

wrote:


Clueless as usual, I see...

 


And right on cue.... yes, it was the reg/rec.

The thing died when I was about three miles away from home, and my
wife came out and we jump-started it from the car, and I kept the revs
up nice and high because I'd been trickling it slowly all the way home
and thought that a lack of revs plus twin headlights on all the time
had just flattened the battery.

Anyway..... after the jump-start, it ran perfectly, nice and bright,
the rest of the way home. If I'd killed the battery stone dead from
over-charging, it wouldn't have done that.

I put it on the trickle charger overnight. next morning, multimeter
over the terminals and about 13.4v with everything switched off.
Switched on, so FI and headlights activated, and it read 12.5v, which
seemed about right.Hit the starter button, and the charge rate shot up
to 17-18v, even at tickover, so I guessed what the problem was.

Interestingly, the dealer reckoned it would be OK to ride to their
premises like that (who was it here said that FI systems were
remarkably tolerant of excess votage? Mark Olson, was that you?) and I
rode it there, half an hour's trip, and it was fine. So the battery
ain't dead. Methinks.

<Waves hands vaguely>

 

On May 26, 7:13 am, "Karma Bearing Fruit"


Hopefully the RR wasn't covered under warranty and you had to shell
out another
£500 because of all your dark karma...

 


You're being haunted by the shade of Joseph Lucas.