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Update Got my Bonnie MOT'd today and when t'lad came home from college I went out to look at the bike. Up until today it was starting if you moved the bars about indicating a loose/broken wire, however when leaving college it point blank refused to start. A quick bump and away it went. So I bit the bullet and disconnected the mess that resembles spaghetti junction behind the headlight, thinking I should mark all these wires or at least take some pics on the phone.....ach no says I, I'll remember..... Anyway I pull the harness through the headlamp shell and starts pulling the outer covering off and just at the point where the lot goes through the frame there is the offending item. A cleanly broken black (earth) wire. Joined it together and plugged the starter circuit back together....Yipee success, off she went. So I taped up the harness using some amalgamating tape I had lying around and fed it back through the headlamp shell. I connected all the blocks together and then tried to remember where all the others went (no they weren't colour coordinated), after about an hour I had it all working and the bike is back together again, so now its Beer time as I'm now off for a few days Hopefully thats the end of that wee saga

Well done Bippo, onwards and upwards

Alright mate Re the Bagpipes, try contacting this company http://www.rghardie.com/ There are plenty of Highland Games throughout the summer, in fact my hometown of Gourock kicks off the season on May 12 Come over, if you can put up with the shit weather, you'll have a great time. That sunset pic in the gallery is the view from my front window.

Alright mate, welcome to the nuthouse

Welcome Alex, not much of a jump there then eh

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I wasn't in the Forces, but have been a Cop for 24 years so kinna understand about respecting the Rank and not the person, but heres a wee song about the 2nd half of Noises' last post (no not the bugle) Ignore the politics and listen to the words

Cheers folks, I'm back at work so will sort it out my next set of 4 off

Right Traced the fault to a broken wire where the harness goes through the steering head. It's the blue/white wire from the starter button and it connects through a multi plug, so...... anyone have a link to buying some multi plug connectors. I have some spades and bullets, but nowt small enough for fitting in the multi

It didn't make me laugh, but as someone who used to do some woodturning, I certainly enjoyed it. Good find

Mojo I use photobucket. Click on the settings of your picture Copy the url on Direct Link On your post for this forum click on Image (the wee square near the twitter symbol) Enter the copied url Bobs your aunties man Not sure with other pic hosting sites Right just read your question again and the above is for uploading pics in a post. So.... Click on Gallery Click on Upload (top right) Create New Album (or Select Album if you already have one) Follow the links there, and these pics will lift straight from your computer

Slice As I (almost)said above, my misfire was on one cylinder only. In fact I rode from Galway to Greenock on 3 pots and when I got home and checked it out, it was the coil.

Swap the coils over and try it. I had an xs1100 and it developed a misfire, turns out there was a hairline crack in one of the coils which, when it heated up, expanded enough to cause the miss

A polythene bag, an orange and some electrical flex....................oh wait wrong forum

Well foamy I have a manual if you want to pm me your address and I'll send it down to you. My boy ran his for 2 years and only "lost" £50 when selling (Whisper it, but when I saw the title, I thought this was going to be another 'grouching' episode....sorry mate)

Welcome to the nuthouse mate, and buy a manual

and buy or download a workshop Manual

Make sure the slide is the right way round

Mike The good ol RN stuck up their bunting for me last night mate Oh wait, it may have been for Her Maj

Well got up after a couple of hours sleep from nights and went out to the bike. Same symptoms, no cranking. Using the manual and a multimeter I fumbled my way through the tests. All appeared to be in order., so I dismantled the r/h switch to check the killswitch. It is a new switch so all connections looked ok. I cleaned them up a bit and checked the continuity between the points. All ok. Anyway a bit puzzled, I reassembled all the parts and tried it. It fired up. Switched it off, sat on the bike, tried it again....Nowt. I'm starting to think sidestand switch so, still sitting on the bike, I leaned it over to put some weight on the stand and off it went. Tried it again and nowt. Still holding in the starter switch I sat the bike upright and off it went. Hmm thinks I. I tried the starter with the bars facing straight ahead...nowt I moved the bars slightly to the right and off it went. I repeated this a number of times and each time the bike fired up, so my diagnosis is a loose wire at the starter button. I had checked the killswitch, but never looked at the lower part of the switchgear. Anyway getting ready for nights, so I will look at that tomorrow. On showing this to my boy, he asks if this could be related to the bike being blown over on Thursday night. Twas very windy and a gust of wind blew the bike over on the righthand side. Hopefully that has dislodged summit obviuos and I'll see it tomorrow.

Cheers He's just went out to the garage and the bike wouldn't turn, He moved the kill switch back and forth and off it went. I'm getting ready for nights, so tomorrow I'll disconnect the killswitch to see if that eliminates the problem. Does anyone know of the stuff you get for cleaning leccy switches, I'm having a brain freeze

Alright folks On the way to college yesterday my son stopped his bike to phone his mate. Call finished, the bike would not turn over, but all lights and horn worked. I was at work so couldnt look it over. He left it for a few minutes and hey presto the bike started. Later on on the way home from Tai Kwondo he stopped at the chippy, and same issue not turning over. Same again a few minutes later it started. I went out this morning and checked all electrical connections which seemed fine and we started and stopped the bike on a number of occasion but could not replicate the fault. So the bike will start and run ok, but if stopped, seems to lose summit. I was thinking either kill switch or sidestand switch issue. Anyone any ideas.

So many coincidences Mike My birthday is on sunday You are 64, I was born in 64 You worked at Fazzers, I work at Fazzers You were on boats I escort boats Have fun mate, I'm on nights so wont get to enjoy it till Monday

Now then Noise Who would be cruel enough to put the poor cat there in the first place