Canterbury Sunday Winter Rides

**Peeteey** · 21st May 2011, 20:57

Found this on Crackbook ...

**gloplg** · 22nd May 2011, 09:46

YYYiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The sky is blue. There is a big yellow thing out there.

Must be time for a ride.............................................. .........

**leopardskin** · 22nd May 2011, 10:08

i have puppy training class this morning

so won't make it today - tis a great day for a ride tho - have fun

**Peeteey** · 22nd May 2011, 17:30

Originally Posted by leopardskin

i have puppy training class this morning

You're training to be a puppy???

Don't most people train to be engineers or doctors?

**Gareth123** · 22nd May 2011, 21:22

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Show me the money!

How did you manage that?? Have fun in Nelson

I swapped out my coil for a new one and the new one has reduced the spark to next to nothing. If my bike starts, it just floods itself whenever I reach 1/4 throttle.

Don't worry, put the old coil back in and rode the bike to Nelson and back no worries at all. I even bought a new bike while I was in Nelson, just have to get it back down here now

**KiwiPhoenix** · 22nd May 2011, 21:53

Originally Posted by Gareth123

I swapped out my coil for a new one and the new one has reduced the spark to next to nothing. If my bike starts, it just floods itself whenever I reach 1/4 throttle.

Don't worry, put the old coil back in and rode the bike to Nelson and back no worries at all. I even bought a new bike while I was in Nelson, just have to get it back down here now

Ah, gotcha! So what kind of bike did you buy??

**neels** · 22nd May 2011, 22:20

Originally Posted by Gareth123

I swapped out my coil for a new one and the new one has reduced the spark to next to nothing. If my bike starts, it just floods itself whenever I reach 1/4 throttle.

Check whether it's a 6 volt or 12 volt coil, if it's a 12volty running on 6 volts it could explain the lack of spark.

Originally Posted by KiwiPhoenix

Ah, gotcha! So what kind of bike did you buy??

I'm guessing a 03 KLR650a

**Gareth123** · 22nd May 2011, 22:32

Originally Posted by neels

Check whether it's a 6 volt or 12 volt coil, if it's a 12volty running on 6 volts it could explain the lack of spark.

I'm guessing a 03 KLR650a

It sure is

How do I check what voltage it is? My bike runs 12v. Unless there is some kind of converter in there somewhere changing it to 6v before it gets to the coil.

**gloplg** · 22nd May 2011, 22:46

Originally Posted by Gareth123

It sure is

How do I check what voltage it is? My bike runs 12v. Unless there is some kind of converter in there somewhere changing it to 6v before it gets to the coil.

If your bike has a 12volt battery I would assume your coil to be 12volt also

**Gareth123** · 22nd May 2011, 23:09

Is there some way to check whether the coil is working properly? All I have is a multimeter though lol

**KiwiPhoenix** · 22nd May 2011, 23:21

Originally Posted by neels

I'm guessing a 03 KLR650a

I was going to ask how you knew but all is clear now!

**neels** · 23rd May 2011, 10:43

Originally Posted by Gareth123

Is there some way to check whether the coil is working properly? All I have is a multimeter though lol

All you can really do is check the resistance, which maybe doesn't tell you much as they are pretty low anyway so an internal short often won't be obvious.

Easy enough to check the voltage to the coil, just stick your multimeter across it with the bike running.

**gloplg** · 25th May 2011, 19:32

Originally Posted by neels

All you can really do is check the resistance, which maybe doesn't tell you much as they are pretty low anyway so an internal short often won't be obvious.

Easy enough to check the voltage to the coil, just stick your multimeter across it with the bike running.

Might pay to be careful putting a multimeter accross an active coil, all sorts of voltage spikes could happen.