Well, if its going to happen, its going to happen to me.
I went out for a lovely ride up to Healesville back through the Dandenongs and was just heading home when it happened.
I am riding along Burwood Hwy and I look down at my guages and it is showing that I am in 1st gear doing 11 kph. I think to myself, "that does not look very good"
Within about 10 seconds, my bike just dies on me as I am travelling along in the 3rd lane with cars behind me. I frantically put on left indication and try to manouvere myself over to the left lane and eventually roll into a drive in florist. Bike completely DEAD. Nothing, zip, non compasmentus.
Get off my bike and just stand there staring at it for the first ten minutes thinking "What a piece of shit"
Lucky I am around the corner from another riding buddy, so I ring him and he turns up and we start looking through the bike. He tests the battery. DEAD
So RACV called, and a flat tray arrives and then it is fun and games loading it onto it. I am holding the bike as the towing man has to operate the sliding loader up. I am getting lifted into the air, holding the bike, it was like a ride at Luna Park.
Cut a long story short, got a lift home with the truck, bike now in the garage. Have to arrange a tow truck in the morning to pick it up and take it to Mick Hones but now I am bikeless for the weekend.
How could this happen to a new bike. It has 3000ks on it and it has seen the back of a tow truck three times.
Right now I am not a happy girl
Now tomorrow, I will have to arrange this POS to be picked up and taken to Mick Hones. If for some reason, I have to go there, you can go ahead with the spannering seesion in my garage, but I thought I had better warn you all first.
No need for spannering my bike now, just to disassemble it and send all the parts back to Suzuki. Never known a bike with 3000ks on it to have been towed 3 times in its lifetime.
Brigitte
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