My R1100GS has been going great guns, until today.
I noticed it felt a bit lumpy on the choke this morning on startup, I get to the motorway within a mile, and cruise at about 60….deffo feels a tad rough and not quite as smoothly a sort of mini surging it just felt a bit off, a couple of mins later, it cuts out - absolutely no power on the throttle and I’m in the middle lane of motorway at rush hour, clutch in and dive for the oh…….
It was one of those smart motorways so nack all hard shoulder, find a small edging to the left of the white line to pull into and traffic rattles past while I spend the next ten mins turning the starter in an attempt to get it to fire up.
After about ten mins of trying off/on on the starter motor the clocks reset, I thought it was game over, starter wouldn’t even turn at this point but that could have been me flustered leaving side stand down.
Turned it off and back on again in one last desperate attempt, hurrah starter seems to turn over fine (again) and this time she starts and I chug into the services and continue the rest of my motorway journey as normal and bike was fine on way home.
Battery has been on an optimate, trip to garage me thinks.
I noticed it felt a bit lumpy on the choke this morning on startup, I get to the motorway within a mile, and cruise at about 60….deffo feels a tad rough and not quite as smoothly a sort of mini surging it just felt a bit off, a couple of mins later, it cuts out - absolutely no power on the throttle and I’m in the middle lane of motorway at rush hour, clutch in and dive for the oh…….
It was one of those smart motorways so nack all hard shoulder, find a small edging to the left of the white line to pull into and traffic rattles past while I spend the next ten mins turning the starter in an attempt to get it to fire up.
After about ten mins of trying off/on on the starter motor the clocks reset, I thought it was game over, starter wouldn’t even turn at this point but that could have been me flustered leaving side stand down.
Turned it off and back on again in one last desperate attempt, hurrah starter seems to turn over fine (again) and this time she starts and I chug into the services and continue the rest of my motorway journey as normal and bike was fine on way home.
Battery has been on an optimate, trip to garage me thinks.