Broke down - the bike and me!
I’ve been today to Stourbridge to get the panniers from Stahl Koffer.
As I pulled the bike out the garage, Martin Launderette turned up. I later scooted over to see Bernie and this time the MP3 was fine, the bike was good, the peak on the helmet was off and I realised that I need to reduce the windscreen height if the vibration is to ever stop! It’s a vibration that jarrs the teeth to such a high frequency you can feel fillings picking up Radio One when all you really want to hear is Country!
Later, at BMW I found that not only has the bike got an after market screen that doesn’t fit the bill, or the screw holes but the seat has been lowered. These two things together could mean I’m getting a terrible draft.
Pulled up outside Bernies, then set off to his workshop and the bike stopped. It’s hard to say if it stalled or if it revved and cut when I put on the revs to pull off but it stopped and would not start.
So, you tell me between here and the end of this blog, you gotta work out the problem.
Lights work, dashboard is lit up, it turns over but does not want to fire. There is fuel in the tank, the fuel light hasn’t come on. The oil is topped and ok and its not over heated.
Bernie went to get some bits and I said I would fiddle for a while. If it wasn’t in public, I would have…
I thought I should take off the seat and maybe look at the fairings for a while. I looked at the bike and thought of the Pamir Pass and worried about how I would get through it. I also thought there is more than one way to deal with anything thats a problem or a solution and while the run home with the break down man was a wimp out, the last time I had to do this I had a great night! So I called for the breakdown guy and while I was on the phone I thought I had an answer.
The previous day I was doing a three handed job with two hands and might have put the blow torch on the control panel. It did smell a little as I was shrinking some heat wrap on some cables. I thought about this for a minute and considered there is no decent ’stuff’ under the dash.
Oh no sweet cheeks, is she mended? Does she still go? Oh no. Don’t panic tho I am sure she will be fixed, and at least you get the first panic of the bike braking while you are at home!
Did you get your vibrations down to a passable level or are you still moving with a very swift bounce and slight twitch?
Big hugs to the lovely Jo.
(Oh I have managed to get a constant “G” but can’t get the “th,th,th” thing right yet!)
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Is it sorted, you will tell me next week that you had accidently caught the kill switch (or the vibration flicked it on!!!). This adventure started months ago, so all part of it. The Journey has begun. Keep laughing.