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first off.... 1982 GS1100EZ in pretty good shape. battery is just a few months old (like 3?). i have had the
bike about 5 years and never had any big electrical issues. bike has never broken down while riding or anything.
i had ridden a bit earlier in the day, and almost every day in the last week. so i was riding yesterday evening and while i was riding the bike started to feel like it was out of gas. kind of sputtering almost, but i had just filled it earlier in the day. i had been going about 35 mph at the time. i then looked and realized the lights on the instruments had gotten really
really dim. i pulled over and checked for anything obvious and found nothing. at this point the bike had been sitting a few minutes, i turned the key and the normal instrument lights, headlight etc seemed to be normal brightness. when i tried to start it, nothing. i could not get the horn to go and if i put on a turn signal it was like the whole system drained out. it
did not go completely dark, but almost. since it's an 82 i have no kick start and i was on a slight downhill. i ran it a bit and dropped it in 2nd and got it to start. it ran, but barely. it felt like it was running really badly and the lights seemed to be off. when i would hit a red light i could not keep the bike going even by pulling the clutch and trying to rev it. for whatever reason it seemed to need the momentum of the moving bike to keep going as much as me feeding it fuel. after a few tries the bike stopped wanting to restart from push starting, so i pushed it to where i was going and did what i had to do. a few hours later i came back to it and the same thing. when i turned the key it kinda looked like the lights were ok, but i did not even have enough juice to blow the horn.... let alone get the
starter to go. when i put on the turn signal everything would dim out and the signal was nowhere near flashing.
i've never had a bike actually die while riding it like this. right now it is
locked up a few miles from my house. i didn't have anything on me more than the tool kit and a leatherman. i have get to it with some tools and see what is going on. that would be a lot easier than hauling it back to my house (that would require enlisting one of my associates with a van).
any ideas what might cause something like that? any suggestions on what to check first? the way it stalled out while i was moving seems kind of weird to me. when it was running it almost felt like it was not firing right or something was really off. is that a symptom of a specific component failure? with the 2 GS bikes i have owned i never actually had any of
the quirky electrical issues some people have (till now?).
thanks in advance for any pointers.
bike about 5 years and never had any big electrical issues. bike has never broken down while riding or anything.
i had ridden a bit earlier in the day, and almost every day in the last week. so i was riding yesterday evening and while i was riding the bike started to feel like it was out of gas. kind of sputtering almost, but i had just filled it earlier in the day. i had been going about 35 mph at the time. i then looked and realized the lights on the instruments had gotten really
really dim. i pulled over and checked for anything obvious and found nothing. at this point the bike had been sitting a few minutes, i turned the key and the normal instrument lights, headlight etc seemed to be normal brightness. when i tried to start it, nothing. i could not get the horn to go and if i put on a turn signal it was like the whole system drained out. it
did not go completely dark, but almost. since it's an 82 i have no kick start and i was on a slight downhill. i ran it a bit and dropped it in 2nd and got it to start. it ran, but barely. it felt like it was running really badly and the lights seemed to be off. when i would hit a red light i could not keep the bike going even by pulling the clutch and trying to rev it. for whatever reason it seemed to need the momentum of the moving bike to keep going as much as me feeding it fuel. after a few tries the bike stopped wanting to restart from push starting, so i pushed it to where i was going and did what i had to do. a few hours later i came back to it and the same thing. when i turned the key it kinda looked like the lights were ok, but i did not even have enough juice to blow the horn.... let alone get the
starter to go. when i put on the turn signal everything would dim out and the signal was nowhere near flashing.
i've never had a bike actually die while riding it like this. right now it is
locked up a few miles from my house. i didn't have anything on me more than the tool kit and a leatherman. i have get to it with some tools and see what is going on. that would be a lot easier than hauling it back to my house (that would require enlisting one of my associates with a van).
any ideas what might cause something like that? any suggestions on what to check first? the way it stalled out while i was moving seems kind of weird to me. when it was running it almost felt like it was not firing right or something was really off. is that a symptom of a specific component failure? with the 2 GS bikes i have owned i never actually had any of
the quirky electrical issues some people have (till now?).
thanks in advance for any pointers.
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