Well you didn't miss much boys and girls.
Rolled the bike out of the garage, fired it up and away I went.
Home to Chelmsford 40 miles, filled up and headed off again.
Writtle, Thaxted, Saffron Walden, Linton, Balsham, Dullingham, Newmarket, Red Lodge, Barton Mills roundabout Total petrol station 70 miles from Chelmsford. Thought I might as well splash some fuel in as I would then probably make it right across to Kimbolton, Cambridge and back to nearly home.....
Filled up, paid and thought to myself that it's just about time for a coffee at Walker's....
Insert key into ignition, whereupon the entire LCD display lit up like an early version of Space Invaders, scrolling about, flashing, counting.... And then it went out.... No ignition, nothing, sans electricity! Bugger! Odd I think, bike had been running well, no sign of any alternator light coming on..... But definitely nothing even approaching 12v and a few amps. Dead as a Dodo.
Then my mobile phone lights up with umpteen messages from the tracker company.... Battery has been disconnected, bike is sitting at Mildenhall... Aha, one of the battery terminals must be loose... Time to lift the seat... Bugger, can't! I left my toolkit at home (I brought my puncture repair kit, had looked at the toolkit and thought, naaaah) and I need a Torx to get the two seat bolts out!
Recovery waller appears. Lift the seat and BINGO.... Both terminals are fine, tighter than a tight thing. A quick voltage check shows about 10 volts, so not great.
Jump start.... BINGO!.... The bike fires up and runs quite normally. Disconnect the slave battery.... Dies instantly.... Jump start again and leave it running for five minutes.... Disconnect.... Bike dies again, instantly.... The battery will hold no charge at all. In short, it's fecked. Half an hour later, bike battery showing just five volts and falling... Defiantly fecked.
SOS Bike recovery to home. Drop in the battery off another bike.... Bingo, more electricity than I know what to do with.
Time for a new battery Mr BMW
