29-08-12, 07:41 PM
On the 6th July I travelled from Norwich to Derby for a bike rally. Dispite going through soem floods and being diverted due to closed roads the bike coped.
Until I got to Nottingham and started a slow uphill crawl then the bike started to 'judder'. At first I thought it was the clutch getting hot and sticky but now I believe it was water getting into the sparks.
The odd thing is shortly have pushing the bike to somewhere safe off the main road and a mate riding it up a lane and back it was fine. I had no problems with the journey or since.
I can only assume that water on the top of the engine and the slow up hill shorted out a couple of cylinders. Eeven though it wasn't raining then!
Anyone else experienced this?
Until I got to Nottingham and started a slow uphill crawl then the bike started to 'judder'. At first I thought it was the clutch getting hot and sticky but now I believe it was water getting into the sparks.
The odd thing is shortly have pushing the bike to somewhere safe off the main road and a mate riding it up a lane and back it was fine. I had no problems with the journey or since.
I can only assume that water on the top of the engine and the slow up hill shorted out a couple of cylinders. Eeven though it wasn't raining then!
Anyone else experienced this?
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