Gaz
Registered user
well, at least that's what it seems like it's doing.
I had a little off whilst pratting about in Wales off-road. I was rounding a left handed off-camber bend when it lowsided at about 15 mph, hit the deck and did a 180 whilst horizontal so that the front wheel ended up pointing back where I'd come from. It was probably on the floor for no more than 30-45 seconds but was sitting abut 20 degrees beyond horizontal (i.e. seat lower down the hill than the wheels)
It restarted fine but then
- was noisy
- vibrating much more than usual (a good sign that a cylinder is fecked)
- was intermittently very lumpy (occasionally smooth)
- prone to cut out at tickover
- had low power (max 60 mph possible on the struggle home)
the lads with me (Robbie C and Garry H) reckon the LHS cylinder is asleep.
An earlier incident that day had seen me chucked off the bike and small clouds of white acrid smelling fumes appeared when we picked it back up. This may have just been something from the battery spewing it's guts up over the exhaust. Or could it be connected to the lack of power incident that arose later on?
Anyway, there's nothing obviously out of place, or twisted, or bashed. Could the impact of the final fall have damaged something internally, or upset it's electrics or fuelling somehow?
If I start it from cold the the left hand header pipe does get hot, but might be just because the left pot is being pushed round by t'other one, rather than doing anything itself.
Help, I'm baffled (and am not the worlds best mechanic)
I had a little off whilst pratting about in Wales off-road. I was rounding a left handed off-camber bend when it lowsided at about 15 mph, hit the deck and did a 180 whilst horizontal so that the front wheel ended up pointing back where I'd come from. It was probably on the floor for no more than 30-45 seconds but was sitting abut 20 degrees beyond horizontal (i.e. seat lower down the hill than the wheels)
It restarted fine but then
- was noisy
- vibrating much more than usual (a good sign that a cylinder is fecked)
- was intermittently very lumpy (occasionally smooth)
- prone to cut out at tickover
- had low power (max 60 mph possible on the struggle home)
the lads with me (Robbie C and Garry H) reckon the LHS cylinder is asleep.
An earlier incident that day had seen me chucked off the bike and small clouds of white acrid smelling fumes appeared when we picked it back up. This may have just been something from the battery spewing it's guts up over the exhaust. Or could it be connected to the lack of power incident that arose later on?
Anyway, there's nothing obviously out of place, or twisted, or bashed. Could the impact of the final fall have damaged something internally, or upset it's electrics or fuelling somehow?
If I start it from cold the the left hand header pipe does get hot, but might be just because the left pot is being pushed round by t'other one, rather than doing anything itself.
Help, I'm baffled (and am not the worlds best mechanic)
, upside down
.more times than you can shake a stick at
. Hopefully it is nothing sinister and just a plug or something. Best start there...........................
