So my blue beast [1]my motorcycle up and died the other day on the way to work. I’m driving along and everything just suddenly went dead. No juice, no electronics, no power, nothing. Luckily enough, I was right next to a gas station when it occurred. I pushed my baby up into the lot and started the arduous process of calling the tow, notifying work, blah blah blah.
It was a busy day so I waited over an hour for the tow. My buddy William was kind enough to drop by the bike shop and give me a ride to work. On top of it all, work was short staffed so I had to flex my hours and work till 0100 since I was late. Even worse, work was busy as all hell so my day went from shitty to shitty with a side of pooh.
Anyway, turns out the voltage regulator burned out. It controls pretty much every aspect of power flow for the bike. No voltage regulator, no vroom vroom. *sigh* The part is on order and hopefully I should have my baby back in about a week. I have an extended warranty so its all covered, thankfully. Money is tight right now so a costly repair would have been problematic.
It could have been worse. Had I been on a long ride and it died, the process would have been increasingly more problematic. Had I been on a freeway when it happened lawd only knows what might have happened. I’m just grateful my baby is alright and will be up and running soon. *whew*
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Damn is this an American bike? You've had a lot of trouble with it. 😉
@cb ~ Its a suzuki grsxr 750 and no not really. Other than the last repair and routine maintenance, its been pretty good. The first time was when I low-sided it on a ride. That was my fault, not the bikes. heeehee
Voltage regulators are notoriously bad in all kinds of vehicles but their main enemy is heat and on a motorcycle you generate plenty of it in places you really don't want to generate it.
You'll see this as a common problem with a bike so learn how to change yours out on the fly.
I hate it when my voltage regulator goes kaput. The last time that happened, as I was on the operating table waiting for them to thread a catheter in my femoral artery….no wait…that was a stent in my heart….never mind.
A day without Moby being all sexy 'n stuff on his crotch rocket is a day without sunshine. 🙂
@RG ~ lol dork
At least it's not a Ducati; it takes the Italians 6 weeks to ship anything over here.