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Duff charging - welcome to the wonderful world of motorcycling - by a cheap voltmeter to check your system.
Most of us have been there - it'll put hairs on your chest.
hanford-
Yup! Stupidly it was sat right next to the socket with the moto charger plugged in! (Bought for a camera flash that runs on small moto batteries.) Worse still, I have at least two multimeters languishing in the electronics toolbox in the bedroom. Should have tried to fully charge the battery then read what kinda output I was getting. Suppose there could be busted wiring/ecu/alternator that I don’t know about too!
On the plus side, the DIY seat cover with added stiff foam was quite comfortable while struggling to start it in traffic. Incredibly comfy while sat lamenting my poor decisions outside McDo.
pdlouche
I saw a lot of ‘tank’ bags on ebay, they all looked a bit naff though.
Bit of a shit ride to the mechanics this afternoon for the carb/valve service. Left the house and the left indicator seemed erratic. Bike felt okay as could be, though.
Hadn’t charged the battery (which was clearly on its way out) and with lights on at dusk the bastard bike stalled on me on a bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic dual carriageway. Refused to start again.
Fortunately traffic was crawling. Couldn’t get it to start so pushed it the 100m to the McDonalds car park.
Had chavs laughing and videoing me out their car window, so that ticks off ultimate embarrassing stall.
No joy waiting in case engine was flooded, barely got a turn over out the starter. JUST managed to catch the 24hr Bike Recovery guy, who came and picked me up and dropped me to the mechanics.
Asked them to add a new battery to the list of clearly overdue maintenance.
Hopefully the mechanics will sort it all out!
But back to tank bags, any examples of what people actually desire?