GSX1400: No start this morning, got smoke instead! Who can help in Auckland?

[nadroj]

Check the main battery connections and earth to frame, and starter connection. It looks like the current has travelled the stand switch route rather than it's proper way.

[notme]

Thanks for all the advice everyone. After some careful thought and remembering that a Suzuki dealer has worked on the bike, and its starter motor, I have decided to drop the bike off at a dealer. I know that it might bite me in the wallet later but if there was a mistake made by the dealer earlier, I don'r want to be in the "you should have gone to a Suzuki dealer" corner if I end up fighting it later.

Watch this space for the gory details!

Ah - there's your problem. Important info to leave out mate, but then again, no one (including me) asked if the bike had been worked on recently.....

The dealer has forgotten to reconnect an earth, or connected it badly. Chase them for a complete fix, don't pay a cent unless they can prove to you that the fault is unrelated.

What did they do exactly, and when?

[FROSTY:Me]

I agree with the above--theres an earth strap somewhere not connected right

[Auntie Podes]

Thanks to Bikesport in Helensville, the faulty component was the Gear Position Switch. Bike is all good to go again.

[BoristheBiter]

Thanks to Bikesport in Helensville, the faulty component was the Gear Position Switch. Bike is all good to go again.

If its all good, why are you selling it??

Bugger that the ad was next to your problem post.