Decided it looked fine this morning, forecast was dry for today so commute in on the bike. Gear up, get the bike out, stab the starter and click, click, click... flat battery :cry:
Despite charging it at the weekend, it is flat again (i'm digging the tracker off as it did it to the old battery a few weeks ago and is the only thing now I can attribute it too which is giving the battery a continuous current drain)
Anyhow, changing the battery is a fiddle as they never give you long enough bolts for the little rectangular terminal nuts so cue lots of cursing from me after dropping them in the battery tray a few times.
Finally get sorted and I'm already 5 minutes late for work. Roads are greasy as hell, traffic is very heavy and I spin the back end up in 2nd on the Evesham road so the rest of the ride is taken very gingerly. Mud on the access road to my works so the bike is dirty again and I'm 20 minutes late in :(
Now sat in work and it is raining so the met office got it wrong again.
FML lol :shocked: :rofl:
Who else has a tale of woe this morning
1st world problems.... ;)
put a bit of cardboard under the nuts on the battery to hold them up (simples) if you have a tracker/alarm the bike should be on an Optimate all the time. Sounds like the battery is fecked BTW.
Poor rant 5/10
minor problems ;)
QuotePoor rant 5/10
:azn:
Changing the battery?! Sounds like a faff...
This happened to me last month on the 675 and I just bump-started it down the hill out of my driveway and roared off up the cul-de-sac to work like fuckin' Street Hawk.
Someone will now tell me you shouldn't bump start modern bikes...
Quote from: tucola on January 07, 2015, 11:36:48 AM
QuotePoor rant 5/10
:azn:
Changing the battery?! Sounds like a faff...
This happened to me last month on the 675 and I just bump-started it down the hill out of my driveway and roared off up the cul-de-sac to work like fuckin' Street Hawk.
Someone will now tell me you shouldn't bump start modern bikes...
No issue bumping it, but it is nigh on impossible to bump start it on a flat road with a fcuked shoulder without someone else to push :( . With the benefit of hindsight, I'd have jump started it off one of the cars, but the other battery was sat on the floor in front of the bike so it was the most obvious choice at the time. The tracker has gone weeks before now.
1st world problems lol