Strange happenings with my bike

**speights_bud** · 27th June 2013, 20:49

Originally Posted by Mom

Give it to the bloke we sold ours to (no point in selling it to him, he wont pay), he probably needs spares

Saw him with it for sale at Taupo track some time ago, I didn't know about the sale situation or else it may have found itself onto my trailer and returned to its owner... He was prepared to take $600 bucks for it...

Tig, have you drained the tank and carb bowls?? Easy to do and time it up when you are low on fuel anyway. Fill up a mower can then go home and flush. After all it is winter and you may have water in the fuel/bottom of the tank. Had this issue with the GPX250 I had years ago, fine in town when the fuel was sloshing around. But when doing Napier/wellington to visit the Mrs it would splutter and die then go again.

doesn't explain the starting issue, but when you mentioned budget/$$ money being an issue and running 91 i thought that you would probably be also running the tank low/ on reserve, water sits below petrol.... and this is the only time i ever had an issue.

The cause in my case was the filler cap spill drain tube rusted partway down, it ran through the tank and out the bottom. Fill the tank up too much and it would end up on the ground, and when it rained it filled up with water....

**Tigadee** · 27th June 2013, 21:54

For the front brake light not activating, I've found the culprit now. It's the sticky plunger on the brake light switch, which works now with a bit of WD40. Don't know how long it will last, we'll see...

Thanks Neels!! Choice advice! Yeah, the universal one definitely wouldn't fit... This means I can go get my WOF now and then renew my rego.

Originally Posted by Theantidote

i'm crossing all my extremities in the hope that you've resolved the issues...and to answer your question...yeah it probably could be just that simple...

LOL Here's hoping so!

Originally Posted by Theantidote

the earth point clean up is easy and wont take long...even when u know very little...make sure you have a good fairly new piece of sandpaper handy and clean those contacts, dont forget to clean the contact point on the bike as well as the wires...squirt with wd40/crc lock it back up and it's pretty freaky how much better the bike starts and runs just doing that...

Thank you, sir. That will be my winter project then... This is certainly educational!

Originally Posted by Theantidote

good luck man and enjoy riding in this frikkin cold weather...fek that the fire is tooooo nice to leave

Was definitely nippy this afternoon! Luckily my Dririder skivvy works amazingly well under my jacket and its winter lining.

Originally Posted by speights_bud

doesn't explain the starting issue, but when you mentioned budget/$$ money being an issue and running 91 i thought that you would probably be also running the tank low/ on reserve, water sits below petrol.... and this is the only time i ever had an issue.

Hmmmmmmm, that may indeed be a possibility... The bike's usually garaged at home and under cover at work, but ocassionally would be still caught out in the rain. And yes, I had to run the tank down to almost empty a few times last month...

It does look like the starting issue was the side stand switch acting up [or one of the other items looked at such as the starter switch and kill switch].

**unstuck** · 27th June 2013, 22:02

Originally Posted by Tigadee

Was definitely nippy this afternoon! Luckily my Dririder skivvy works amazingly well under my jacket and its winter lining.

Ya big jessie, was a lovely day fanging up and down the beach today.

As for water in the tank, you dont need to keep your bike outside for that to happen.

A steel tank that spends most of its time below half will form condensation and give you some water in the tank.

**Tigadee** · 27th June 2013, 22:09

Originally Posted by unstuck

As for water in the tank, you dont need to keep your bike outside for that to happen.

A steel tank that spends most of its time below half will form condensation and give you some water in the tank.

Och! That sounds nae good, laddie! Guess the best thing to do is try to keep the tank topped up often, aye? Sucks to have a 8.5 litre + 2.5 l reserve tank...

Will things improve come summer? i.e. will the water dry out of the tank with the hot dry summer weather?

**unstuck** · 28th June 2013, 04:37

Afraid not fella.

I usually flush the tank out on the VF once a year just as part of my maintainence plan. Just one little water droplet that finds its way in to the carby can be a real pain in the arse, and usually only comes out again with some compressed air. You will most often only get water through to the carbs when running on reserve or if you run it out of fuel.

**Mom** · 28th June 2013, 06:45

Originally Posted by speights_bud

Saw him with it for sale at Taupo track some time ago, I didn't know about the sale situation or else it may have found itself onto my trailer and returned to its owner... He was prepared to take $600 bucks for it...

That's bloody generous of him! Far out what a fucken cheek! Say hi to him from me when you next see him.

**Tigadee** · 28th June 2013, 08:14

Originally Posted by unstuck

You will most often only get water through to the carbs when running on reserve or if you run it out of fuel.

Then most likely that has happened because I have run very low and out of petrol on a few ocassions...

**Maha** · 28th June 2013, 13:51

Originally Posted by speights_bud

Saw him with it for sale at Taupo track some time ago, I didn't know about the sale situation or else it may have found itself onto my trailer and returned to its owner... He was prepared to take $600 bucks for it...

He does own the bike, the change of ownership papers turned up here some time ago. I thought it would be closely followed by the agreed $1000 but....denied

Lesson learned, his wife did offer $500 a week prior to us taking to their place, they were at a party in West Auckland. I said don't worry about it, just give me to total amount when the bike is delivered.

She was not at home when we too the bike there, but Mike said ''send us your bank account number and we'll put the money in''...gave up waiting ages ago after many texts to them were ignored.

**Drew** · 28th June 2013, 13:56

Originally Posted by Maha

He does own the bike, the change of ownership papers turned up here some time ago. I thought it would be closely followed by the agreed $1000 but....denied

Lesson learned, his wife did offer $500 a week prior to us taking to their place, they were at a party in West Auckland. I said don't worry about it, just give me to total amount when the bike is delivered.

She was not at home when we too the bike there, but Mike said ''send us your bank account number and we'll put the money in''...gave up waiting ages ago after many texts to them were ignored.

I like the old XVs, can I go do a repo for you and give ya a hundy for it?

**Maha** · 28th June 2013, 15:10

Originally Posted by Drew

I like the old XVs, can I go do a repo for you and give ya a hundy for it?

I would fully agree with that, but thing is, he/they keep moving house, Tigadee could probably use it as a spare parts shitter.
It has a rather new seat on it though.

**Drew** · 28th June 2013, 15:18

Originally Posted by Maha

I would fully agree with that, but thing is, he/they keep moving house, Tigadee could probably use it as a spare parts shitter.
It has a rather new seat on it though.

PM me a name, and the bike rego.

**Tigadee** · 28th June 2013, 18:03

Originally Posted by Maha

Tigadee could probably use it as a spare parts shitter. It has a rather new seat on it though.

Sold! I could do with a new seat...

**Mom** · 28th June 2013, 18:25

Originally Posted by Drew

PM me a name, and the bike rego.

No need for a PM. It is Mike and Jenny Cudby who have that POS Radian that I used to ride. They were friends so you kind of allow a bit of leeway around these sort of things. The prime reason we have not persued this is I was working for the company that paid Jenny's wages each week, in fact I processed her timesheets personally, so was in a position of trust and could not use the knowledge I had via my employment to chase down the money. I have quite a bit of integrity around these sort of things.

I don't have a problem with shaming them out though. Might just keep it up for a bit to see if it helps get the money

I am no longer paying her wages each week.

They opened themselves up for it by not paying us for the bike as promised. Completely our problem. Our fault. No need for a repo. They just might like to pay up is all. I am not holding my breath.

Take it as a bit of a warning though anyone reading this, no such thing as friends in business transactions. Cool, cold, binding agreements is the only way to go

Oh, and get cash up front from the Cudby's

**speights_bud** · 28th June 2013, 20:27

Originally Posted by Maha

I would fully agree with that, but thing is, he/they keep moving house, Tigadee could probably use it as a spare parts shitter.
It has a rather new seat on it though.

I don't believe that they own the bike anymore, i think it was sold the day after i saw it.

Just as a side note, registration of a motor vehicle is not necessarily ownership.

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/fa...d-selling.html

"The party required to be 'registered in respect of a vehicle' is the person or company that is entitled to lawful possession of the vehicle. Note that this is not legal title for the vehicle – it is a record of who is responsible for the vehicle and who is liable for licensing fees."