My hard done by 11GS started cutting out on the commute the other day and finally died... All circuits seemed OK, sidestand switch, kill switch, and the fuel pump seemed to be priming... I thought a dodgy ignition wire as this has happened before or the dreaded HES...
Recovered to home and started OK... Then better look today... Bike starts, warms up and then starts cutting out again... Restarts with a bit of persistence but ditto... Fizzing sound under/around tank/ flickering rev counter and dash lights with ignition on and a circuit of the bike with the ear on alert... Fiddled with wires and checked relays... not in there... Fizzing is intermittent but needed to pin down problem... Then I manage to start the bike again but only on LH pot... This runs Ok on LH and fizzing stops... I am guessing the coil has shorted as coil failing on one pot has happened on a previous bike... My experience of HES is its works or it doesn't without much messing in between... I have not had a coil failure on both pots together but the coil on the GS seems a single coil with twin outputs and is "wasted spark"...
Waddyreakon... My GS's have never left me stranded before and the worst of it is digging around shows that it needs a tidy up big style... And the trip had to be rescued by my ST11... Can the GS live with such shame...
Recovered to home and started OK... Then better look today... Bike starts, warms up and then starts cutting out again... Restarts with a bit of persistence but ditto... Fizzing sound under/around tank/ flickering rev counter and dash lights with ignition on and a circuit of the bike with the ear on alert... Fiddled with wires and checked relays... not in there... Fizzing is intermittent but needed to pin down problem... Then I manage to start the bike again but only on LH pot... This runs Ok on LH and fizzing stops... I am guessing the coil has shorted as coil failing on one pot has happened on a previous bike... My experience of HES is its works or it doesn't without much messing in between... I have not had a coil failure on both pots together but the coil on the GS seems a single coil with twin outputs and is "wasted spark"...
Waddyreakon... My GS's have never left me stranded before and the worst of it is digging around shows that it needs a tidy up big style... And the trip had to be rescued by my ST11... Can the GS live with such shame...