Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
........... Electrics are easy if you get the basics right.
They are, and they are not the magical mysterious thing that some believe them to be! This belief is why some people will blame an unknown fault on "something in the electrics" when it can often be something else - mechanical or otherwise.

p.dath - you have the troubleshooting chart given by pete in the 8th post on this thread - http://thegsresources.com/garage/gs_statorfault.htm and it sounds like you have run through it, if you have then you don't have a charging system problem, so don't worry about the stator or any other part of the system.
Of course, if you haven't run the troubleshooting chart then that's the first thing you need to do.....

Pete might also be on to something above, in that there could be no problem at all, and it's just the usage pattern of around town running that is causing the "problem". You can prove this one by going for a good ride (say an hour) then leaving the bike overnight and seeing what happens.

In the end, if the electrical chart shows no problem, and the bike does start fine even if it sounds like it is cranking slow sometimes, then do you really have a problem? I'm about to go start my (near new, perfect working order all systems go) car to go to work, and it's below zero in the gargre - if i listen carefully it will crank slower but that's just how things work :-)