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Re: [St] The Dreaded "No Start" Syndrome
- Subject: Re: [St] The Dreaded "No Start" Syndrome
- From: Nathan Maher <nate@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:00:32 -0400
List,
Just a follow up to this - the problem continued to be intermittent and
truth be told, with the birth of my daughter 5 weeks ago fixing it became
far less a priority.
Anyway, this past weekend I fired the bike up to go get it inspected
(finally) and on the way the issue manifested itself again. I happened
to be in a parking lot right next to a Tiger rider, although he wasn't on
his mount that day. We looked things over and as best we could tell the
only real plausible explanation for the behavior was a simple bad
connection, not a short. The reason, no amount of bending, twisting or
tweaking of the wires helped, but as soon as I giggled the wires
connected to the battery I was back off and running. So last night I
removed the battery and low and behold the terminals were pretty cruddy
looking. I wonder if this happened when I had the battery out for
charging last year (I didn't remove it this year)? So I attacked the
terminals with some fine grit sand paper and there was quite the layer of
crap. After reattaching the battery leads (which I also cleaned) all
appears well. I took the bike to work today, glorious to be doing that
again, and so far so good. Of course if I report back tonight that I
never made it home we'll know my diagnosis was incorrect. But so far all
signs point to it being a plausible explanation.
In semi-related news I talked with my dealer about selling the bike for
me on consignment. I've known the owner for the better part of 8 years
now and he looked me right in the eye and said, "Don't even think about
it. Put it away, ride it 100 miles a year, it's worth twice as much to
you as it is to anyone else." For the record, he figured that it'd be
worth ~$3500 which jives with what the list thought. But more
importantly, he's right. I recently transferred my insurance to my
primary carrier (home and auto) and my premium dropped to a whopping $150
per year and reg and tax cost next to nothing with this thing these days.
So looks like for now I'll ride Leeloo when I can, keep her clean and
cared for and stuff the idea of moving on.
Maybe I'll leave work early today...
Nate
00SprintRS
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