Broke Bike

[do not crash]

:cry: Think my bike has broken driving along slowing down to turn changed down then diddn't have any power changed down again and hit gas still no power but a big backfire then pulled in clutched to rev it a bit and engine just chugged away before cutting out. I let the clutch out again to restart engine and it jsut about chugged and limped the half mile home sounding like a car with a cylinder not working. All the clocks and lights stopped working completely and the regulator has been very recently changed.

Does this sound terminal. bike is still under warranty but I would like to find out what is wrong so the garage don't fob me off with a third rate repair

 

[duncan]

1999-2000 blackbird ?

 

[Jaws]

Sounds to me like the battery has passed on !

Get it on charge over night and see what happens in the morrow

 

[do not crash]

R reg bird. Had a new battery fitted by the dealer when I got it. The the regulator broke so the dealer fixed that.

 

[Jaws]

Well, you can either sit there and tell us what has been done and not try anything, or try something and call me a twat if I am wrong ( which will be nothing new ! )

I would say its either battery gone awol or the reg rec ( new or not )

 

[do not crash]

Went to see the dealer today he is going to pick the bike up tomorrow morning. The trouble is if it is the regulator its broken twice in a few weeks which gives me no confidence to ride the bike any distance in case it goes wrong again and I get stuck. Luckily both times its broke I have been close to home but if it had gone on sunday I would have been miles away with no AA membership and no way of gettting back.