Hello everyone.
A few updates to do so this is Update 1:
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I received and fitted my new HID bulb. But there’s bigger news to be told first. My bike has broke.
I got up Saturday around 9am, pretty early for my usual Saturday routine, but today was tinkering day. Bike was washed by around 10:30am and I got everything ready for fitting my new HID rig. I was pretty nervous about it, mostly the touching the battery bit, but I got Dad to supervise that bit so I didn’t kill myself.
It took about 2 hours, mainly due to me making sure everything was in place and secure and not going to break etc. I have photos from all of this fitting but Dad is away with the camera so I can’t post them up yet.
Everything went ace, the new light worked and I was happy as larry. (Read: relieved) I then went to re-attach the headlight assembly and sheared a bolt. After all of this working flawlessly I bloody ruin it by over-tightning the bloody bolt. IDIOT. It was safe as it was with the remaining 3 bolts holding it in place but it was just really frustrating, as the rest of the bolt was stuck in the thread. A job for the next service I think.
Anyway, I started the bike around 4-5 times to show Dad and Mum and then Blair came up on his bike. I showed him my light working and he was pretty impressed with the brightness of it. My bike was on the paddock stand so I asked Blair to help me and when I took it off the stand I did it a bit abruptly. The bike landed with a thud but I didn’t think anything of it.
We then decided the rain had stopped enough for us to head out and as I went to start my bike, it didn’t. It went “ee ee ee” and I looked at Mum who was standing there. I then gave it some throttle the second time and it started with a revver. Weird eh? Anyway I didn’t think anything of it, and even when the bike lurched at the top of the road I was a wee bit concerned but not too worried.
We then rode to Newburgh and on to the jetty bit, I wanted to take comparison photos of our two headlights, mine with HID and Blairs without. We turned the bikes off and I took two photos. We then saw a beach about 10 miles up the road so we decided to investigate. And that’s where my journey stopped.
The bike just wouldn’t start. The started motor was ticking but it was as if there was no fuel getting to the engine to start it. Either that or the spark plugs had bust? Hmm I had no idea. Then after a wee while of trying to start it, the FI light came on and started flashing. It would then say “FI” on the dash.
Now from reading the forum I knew that if you didn’t replace the ignition clusted properly, the immobiliser that is housed in this small bit of plastic would show a FI warning. But when I turned the key on, the FI light would come on and go off once the sweep of the rev counter had finished, like always. It was only when I went to start the bike that nothing would happen and THEN the FI light would flash.
Anyway, after 20 or so attempts I asked Blair to go and get the tools from the house (we were only about 10 minutes from the house by this point) and I would lift the tank off to see if there was something snagged or loose.
I remembered that I would need the ratched extension bar to get the tank bolts off so phoned Blair and we ran through what tools I would need to take the tank off.
Half an hour later and Blair returned. I had started the steps to taking the tank off with the bike’s tool kit but could only get as far as taking the immobiliser panel off as I needed the ratchet.
I took the tools out and Blair had brought the small and medium ratchets, the medium extension bar and the bloody 10mm small ratchet bit. So the extension bar didn’t fit the 10mm ratched bit. ANNOYING.
I managed to get the tank off etc and checked everywhere for fuel leaking or a snagged anything. I asked Blair to phone the garage to let them know that my bike was broke and I may need the van to come and pick me up. He got a call 5 minutes later to say the van was on it’s way.
There was no snags etc and after putting all the stuff back on we tried to bump start the bike but nothing was working still. So we waited for the van to arrive, which it did 20 minutes later. The guy drew up and I was already pushing my bike so as soon as the ramp touched the floor my bike was in the back of the van.
We spoke about the issue and he said the garage was shutting in 15 minutes so don’t bother coming to the garage. Also there would be no mechanics in on Sunday so they wouldn’t look at it till Monday at the earliest. Fair enough we said and thanked the boy for coming out to get my bike.
Blair and I spoke for a bit about what could have happened. It couldn’t have been me fitting the new bulb. It was just a case of wiring it to the battery and running the cables to the headlight. That was it. I didn’t touch anything else. So our only explanation was that when I dumped the bike off the paddock stand, it must have knocked something off or out. Perhaps it broke something. The electrics were perfect, the lights came on the indicators worked all the dash worked perfectly, so it wasn’t the electrics. Thinking about it now, it must be the spark plugs. I looked in the manual and under the “FI Indicator warning” section it speaks only about the spark plugs. I must have broke on when I dropped the bike. Although I have no idea anyway, I guess I’ll just have to wait to hear what the garage says.
It was then a case of me being a pillion for the first time ever! I was dead excited about it and I tell you what, I fecking loved it. It is so so so different being a pillion compared to being a rider and it was such a good feeling sitting there and leaning with Blair etc. Loved it!
It then started raining, so I wasn’t loving it as much.
I am pissed off. I hope this wasn’t due to me tinkering. It can’t be because the electrical circuit is working. It’s a FI problem, which means spark plugs or fuel injection system problems. And if that is the case, how did it happen? The bike worked prior to me taking it off the stand, so it must have been the dumping it on the ground that wrecked it.
The other think is the bike was running perfectly until I switched it off at Newburgh. It wasn’t like it was running like crap all the time. It’s just weird and now I have to get the fecking bus tomorrow to work, which means 6:30am rise.
Anyway, that’s that, and I’ll hopefully get my bike back next week sometime.
The photos from the jetty looked like this:
I think you will agree, the HID looks the dogs, and the additional LED side lights that I got (12 LED’s per side light) add to the effect. Blair got some as well. A token gesture in a crap day.
Update 2:
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RST still haven’t got back to me, and after 2 weeks I still haven’t received my RST Paragon trousers back from the fixer shoppie. I received my Hardas trousers on Wednesday last week, which was great, but crap as I had to go around for a week and half with plain jeans on.
Anyway, they are really good, solidly built and very comfortable to wear, with no tension around the crotch, which is a failing point for most motorcycle trousers.
I haven’t got any pictures yet, but I will post some up next time around.
Anyway, I am done and still upset that my bike is broke. I miss it already and feel really guilty for some reason. I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks for looking guys, 10,000 views and rising!
Gordon
UPDATE:
It seems as though it may be a fuel pump relay issue, as some of the boys on the forum have said that their fuel pump relays have been clogged up with crap and corroded. Who knows, but it’s certainly something to do with the fuelling. Perhaps its the o2 eliminator as these boys who had the corrosion had aftermarket pipes.HMMMM
