usnen2
08-18-2009, 09:29 PM
Riding to the Iowa State Fair today and looking forward to a nice day of riding and bumming around the fair. 30 miles from Des Moines on I-80 when the ignition totally cut out and the bike died. Was horrified to discover that I had left my toolkit at home and didn't have so much as a pocket knife on me. Checked all the fuses and they looked good. Ended up hiking 6 miles to town and calling my wife for a rescue.
Where is the first place I should look for the failed ignition? bike cranks, battery seems good. Tach was doing some weird stuff right after the failure but not now. There was no warning on this - went from running great to completely dead.
As an aside, I was very dissapointed that out of the 20 or so bikes that passed me broke down on the side of the interstate (including 4 BMWs) not one stopped to offer assistance. Am I the only person that stops to help fellow bikers anymore?
Where is the first place I should look for the failed ignition? bike cranks, battery seems good. Tach was doing some weird stuff right after the failure but not now. There was no warning on this - went from running great to completely dead.
As an aside, I was very dissapointed that out of the 20 or so bikes that passed me broke down on the side of the interstate (including 4 BMWs) not one stopped to offer assistance. Am I the only person that stops to help fellow bikers anymore?