SIGN OF THINGS TO COME

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I WAS OUT ON THE BIKE YESTERDAY Came upto some temporary traffic lights and went to put it into neutral, didnt look at what I was doing and so put it into second and then let the clutch out, big lurch forward, felt pretty stupid but was okay as no one behind me, lights went to green started bike up fine and rode away at bit pissed at myself, gave it a big handful and about 3/4 mile down the road it just cut out, nothing, coasted to a stop, felt like there was no fuel ( I had topped her up about 25 miles ago so I knew that was not the problem), went to start up , nothing, turned the ignition off and back on , started seemed okay, went to pull away and it cut, turned off again and back on wouldnt start, off and on again, just turned over didnt catch, was about to get the BMW assistance card out again, when I thought ILL give it one more try, fired up fine and I rode it 3 miles home with no further problems, I havent ridden it since but I gave it a good visual check over, no leaks, no wires out of place, started again in the garage, what I need to know is ,is this the start of one of the well documented failures, FPC OR RING or is it because of my inattentive riding, IM doing a big european trip in 2 weeks time and now IM worried, any help greatly recieved, Neil.


ps it was a hot sunny dry day ( for once)

 

[nedflanders]

Stalling it shouldn't cause any problems, sounds like an electrical Gremlin somewhere, you weren't near any Ley lines by any chance were you

 

[Pathologic]

hi Neil

Soory you had a good day spoiled. Not technical myself, but the experts will want to know how old the bike is an if the FPC or EWS have been replaced. Many have been during normal services as BMW try to recover some credibility.

I have neve had a failure myself, but read many threads with interest and dread. from what you say it sounds more like the fuel pum controller. If so, it will fail. Get it fixed or carry a replacement on you trip.

depending on the age of the bike the dealer might do it FOC.

Best of luck,

regards,

Path.

 

[Fanum]

Neil....completely off topic here, sorry, but if I were you, I'd give Paul G (BHT) a shout using the [email protected] email address and ask him to change your username to something that isn't your own email address.......you may find that you start getting all sorts of spam email by publsihing it on an open forum.....the automated bots glean them and add them to lists.

Bill