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20

No Vroom

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So my blue beast1 up and died the other day on the way to work. I’m driving along and everything just suddenly went dead. No juice, no electronics, no power, nothing. Luckily enough, I was right next to a gas station when it occurred. I pushed my baby up into the lot and started the arduous process of calling the tow, notifying work, blah blah blah.

It was a busy day so I waited over an hour for the tow. My buddy William was kind enough to drop by the bike shop and give me a ride to work. On top of it all, work was short staffed so I had to flex my hours and work till 0100 since I was late. Even worse, work was busy as all hell so my day went from shitty to shitty with a side of pooh.

Anyway, turns out the voltage regulator burned out. It controls pretty much every aspect of power flow for the bike. No voltage regulator, no vroom vroom. *sigh* The part is on order and hopefully I should have my baby back in about a week. I have an extended warranty so its all covered, thankfully. Money is tight right now so a costly repair would have been problematic.

It could have been worse. Had I been on a long ride and it died, the process would have been increasingly more problematic. Had I been on a freeway when it happened lawd only knows what might have happened. I’m just grateful my baby is alright and will be up and running soon. *whew*



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4 comments

  1. Jim says:

    August 23, 2010 at 3:00 pm (UTC -7 )

    At least it’s not a Ducati; it takes the Italians 6 weeks to ship anything over here.

  2. RG says:

    August 21, 2010 at 7:08 am (UTC -7 )

    I hate it when my voltage regulator goes kaput. The last time that happened, as I was on the operating table waiting for them to thread a catheter in my femoral artery….no wait…that was a stent in my heart….never mind.

    A day without Moby being all sexy ‘n stuff on his crotch rocket is a day without sunshine. :)

    @RG ~ lol dork

  3. Tony P says:

    August 21, 2010 at 4:22 am (UTC -7 )

    Voltage regulators are notoriously bad in all kinds of vehicles but their main enemy is heat and on a motorcycle you generate plenty of it in places you really don’t want to generate it.

    You’ll see this as a common problem with a bike so learn how to change yours out on the fly.

  4. Cb says:

    August 20, 2010 at 7:11 pm (UTC -7 )

    Damn is this an American bike? You’ve had a lot of trouble with it. ;-)

    @cb ~ Its a suzuki grsxr 750 and no not really. Other than the last repair and routine maintenance, its been pretty good. The first time was when I low-sided it on a ride. That was my fault, not the bikes. heeehee

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