02-08-19, 09:25 AM
That escalated quickly...
Being the smart man that I am, I didn't bother putting the wiring diagram or multimeter in my bag today, after all, its only an infrequent fault, it probably won't manifest again for a while.
I made it perhaps 2-3 miles from home before it died, about one bend after overtaking a long line of cars. Did the usual playing around trying to restart, then pushed it up the hill and over the busy road to a garage to ask to borrow their multimeter... naturally the bike resumed working at this point, so I turned it around and headed back home.
Momentary cut out almost right away when turning off the road, then clear for perhaps another mile, until it did another momentary stall, then died completely. Repeat the wait-a-while-and-then-it-works dance, rode it off the curb of the pavement I'd parked on, no issue with the jolt from the drop, but then it packed in again all of about 50 yards later.
Pushed it to a pub, and waited a while again, finally decided to start up and made it the rest of the way home at 30-40 without issues.
While it was dead I jiggled the side stand, ignition and kill switches, with no effect. I couldn't see a spark between an extension bar I held in a plug cap and the cylinder head, also it backfired a couple of times after recovering, so pretty its on the ignition side now.
Being the smart man that I am, I didn't bother putting the wiring diagram or multimeter in my bag today, after all, its only an infrequent fault, it probably won't manifest again for a while.
I made it perhaps 2-3 miles from home before it died, about one bend after overtaking a long line of cars. Did the usual playing around trying to restart, then pushed it up the hill and over the busy road to a garage to ask to borrow their multimeter... naturally the bike resumed working at this point, so I turned it around and headed back home.
Momentary cut out almost right away when turning off the road, then clear for perhaps another mile, until it did another momentary stall, then died completely. Repeat the wait-a-while-and-then-it-works dance, rode it off the curb of the pavement I'd parked on, no issue with the jolt from the drop, but then it packed in again all of about 50 yards later.
Pushed it to a pub, and waited a while again, finally decided to start up and made it the rest of the way home at 30-40 without issues.
While it was dead I jiggled the side stand, ignition and kill switches, with no effect. I couldn't see a spark between an extension bar I held in a plug cap and the cylinder head, also it backfired a couple of times after recovering, so pretty its on the ignition side now.