Been out for a ride and meet today, overall a nice pleasant day out on my pride and joy, stopped at my brothers house on the way home for some tea, the bike parked on the street, right outside his gate. Just sat watching some telly and suddenly my alarm on the bike starts bleeping and goes off. I rushed outside to find the bike laid on its side in the middle of the road and some little scroats high tailing it away from the scene! Didnt bother chasing them (I'm not as fit as I used to be!), so checked out the bike. Apart from a bent clutch lever and some scratches to the belly pan and generator casing all seemed well. When I got home, all of two miles away, I noticed my cooling fan was on! This is a rare happening, especially as its a cool night. Has anyone dropped their bike and discovered any coolant leaking out?
at a guess its possible you might have an air pocket in the cooling system, so just pop the r/h fairing panel of, then the coolant cap, start the bike, top up the coolant and while drinking a cup of tea let the system bleed any air out. This will be in the forum of bubbles in the coolant. I would get an old rag/tshort and put that around the mouth of thermostat housing house so it catches any coolant etc.
Hmm at a guess, I imagine that's why they thought to have a go in the first place...
The steering lock issue is a known one, all you normally have to do is wiggle the bars when turning the key. There is something you can spray down the barrel and ininto the back of the steering lock itself that should fix it. I vaguely remember someone telling me not to put WD40 into the ignition barrel, but I dont see any reason why that cant be used on just the steering lock. To get the the back of the steering lock (even its possible when its still on the bike) you'll need one of those thin but long little pipes that WD40 cans come with.
Btw you should have reported it to police as they 'might' have been willing to send someone round to take prints of the bike, but I say might because they are a lazy bunch of wankers when it comes to minor crimes. The last time one of my bikes got nicked, I was lucky in that it had been reported dumped. When i got there the car it was thrown in the back off was next to the bike, so called the police and told them I would be waiting where I found the bike so I could catch and punish the fuck/s who stole it... funnily enough they were there in 15mins after that.
But even after all that, the finger prints they took didn't result in a conviction...
utter scum, srry to hear about that m8...
Checked the bike this morning in the daylight and apart from said scratches and the bent clutch lever, all is well. Check all the levels and evreything seems ok there.
Memo to self: always use the steering lock and put chain back under seat!
I got off lucky this time :rolleyes
Sorry to hear about what happened now if that was me I would have lost the plot and kicked the sh1t out of em.
Hope you get it all fixed.
^ ^ ^ I'm with him on this one ^ ^ ^
Shoot em, stab em or maim them, all in self defence of course!!!
