Before.
During.
After.
I was trying to put the video directly on here, too bloody dumb to manage it, sorry.
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Before.
During.
After.
I was trying to put the video directly on here, too bloody dumb to manage it, sorry.
Last edited by onearmedbandit; 9th September 2013 at 20:32.
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Roast pork.
I hope no one was injured? what caused it?
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Nobody hurt.Originally Posted by DrunkenMistake
Roast pork.
I hope no one was injured? what caused it?
Battery lead positive shorted against the frame. Boom.
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The tarpy and pull start rope came out of the fire surprisingly un harmed.I was trying to put the video directly on here, too bloody dumb to manage it, sorry.
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The plastic bag on the tarp was recovered too.
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So are they giving you a new one?
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What species of battery was it? Just out of interest. For the members of the Kiwi Battery Forum......
Manopausal.
Ta
I was gonna ask this.
With all the stuff on a cop bike, I imagine the charging system would be beefed up, but the battery should be able to remain pretty much standard. My electrical knowledge is shit house though, so I'm probably wrong and the things run two truck batteries.
Bogeyman
Assaultn.
...
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Genuine hp
Now that's what I call a 'burn out'!
"Sorry Officer, umm.... my yellow power band got stuck wide open"
Every day I'm Dumblin'
Bit of paint and you got yourself a rat bike
I never get lost. I go on adventures
Pootler
Tyres look better than I would have thought afterwards.
Hardcore Biker
...and then there was one.
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I walked around a bit that day and said to people "It'll buff out".
Basically, I needed a laugh, coz it felt pretty shithouse looking after a bike for 6 years then seeing it go that way.
Here's a pic of the same spot on my personal R1200RT.
Where the red lead runs adjacent to the frame cross member, that's where the short happened on the work bike.
Note that on my one, there's a small piece of insulation where the cable gets close to the frame. Maybe VMW knew it was a problem by 2009, the year my one was built.
For the techies, the battery was a BMW factory one, about 12 months old. Don't blame the battery, it was the cable chafing on the frame.
Still feeling pretty shithouse about it actually, like I've lost a friend.
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Yeah, we all thought that too. A close examination however showed that in the hottest spot, the rubber had melted away, and you could view the wires normally hidden.
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