17-04-2007, 10:24pm
I should be there, the busa is now active again after my totally bizzare battery incident. Here's a brief of what happened!
Out on Cotter road doing some twisties, late in the afternoon.
Was doing some decent speed down a straight and the bike just cuts out completely! absolutely dead....lights off, the lot....i'm thinking...wtf is going on here...thinking a flat battery. Got off & tried to see what was going on ...nothing....can't see anything although I smell that familiar battery acid smell....
Anyway, lol, few seconds later it bursts into a small flame under the seat and I started mouthing a few expletives...
Turns out A spanner under my hump, which was sitting in a tool pouch with a small hole had slipped out of the pouch and through a small gap under the hump down into the battery compartment area under the seat, and managed to lodge itself perfectly connecting the + positive and - Negative terminals of the battery!
Oh well..Max came out and saved the day or night rather but what a bloody bizzare thing...Lesson learned, don't leave loose tools under the hump!!!
Out on Cotter road doing some twisties, late in the afternoon.
Was doing some decent speed down a straight and the bike just cuts out completely! absolutely dead....lights off, the lot....i'm thinking...wtf is going on here...thinking a flat battery. Got off & tried to see what was going on ...nothing....can't see anything although I smell that familiar battery acid smell....
Anyway, lol, few seconds later it bursts into a small flame under the seat and I started mouthing a few expletives...
Turns out A spanner under my hump, which was sitting in a tool pouch with a small hole had slipped out of the pouch and through a small gap under the hump down into the battery compartment area under the seat, and managed to lodge itself perfectly connecting the + positive and - Negative terminals of the battery!
Oh well..Max came out and saved the day or night rather but what a bloody bizzare thing...Lesson learned, don't leave loose tools under the hump!!!