Know your bike

**Mrs Busa Pete** · 2nd July 2006, 16:31

friday night packed bag for ride south and got out the gear for early start. saterday morn left home had a unplaned drop off at airport got that out of the way and desided to go home to bloody cold .later that day went to mercer to check out ladys gear at lifestyle imports .on the way home went to midllemore for to see some one came out and bike wouldent go fuel injectoin problem rang around for tips on were to look no one home so called towtruck $165 later the bike and us safe at home .sunday morn checked cd manual no real help just more posobile corses tried a walk that worked check the fuse if it has one for the FI sore as it had blowen lesson lernt could of been werse could of hapend down south in the midlle of nowere.

**Madness** · 2nd July 2006, 16:38

Sounds like a patch of silver paper from a smoke packet might have fixed it (temporarily, of course). Like you said, could have been much wor$e...

**onearmedbandit** · 2nd July 2006, 16:44

I kind of understood that. I think...

**Motig** · 2nd July 2006, 16:56

I take it English is a second language ?

**Mrs Busa Pete** · 2nd July 2006, 16:59

i had the fuses on me just blamed papatoe fuel at the time it was 3kms from servo were we got gas shit in the pump was first thout

**SwanTiger** · 2nd July 2006, 17:29

Translation

Got my shit togeather.

Did a few things.

Fucken cold.

Bike fucked out.

Blamed shitty fuel.

Donated a lot of money to a Tow company.

Found out the problem wasn't shitty fuel.

Originally Posted by busa pete

friday night packed bag for ride south and got out the gear for early start. saterday morn left home had a unplaned drop off at airport got that out of the way and desided to go home to bloody cold .later that day went to mercer to check out ladys gear at lifestyle imports .on the way home went to midllemore for to see some one came out and bike wouldent go fuel injectoin problem rang around for tips on were to look no one home so called towtruck $165 later the bike and us safe at home .sunday morn checked cd manual no real help just more posobile corses tried a walk that worked check the fuse if it has one for the FI sore as it had blowen lesson lernt could of been werse could of hapend down south in the midlle of nowere.

**scracha** · 2nd July 2006, 17:49

Originally Posted by MAXIMUSDEMERITUS

Sounds like a patch of silver paper from a smoke packet might have fixed it (temporarily, of course). Like you said, could have been much wor$e...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo. Fuses normally blow for a reason. I'd rather have a blown fuse than wiring getting burnt out and going on fire. Nick a fuse from some other part of the bike (high beam, indicators, rear brake light or summit).