The stock battery is only just up to the job. Ok if every thing else is ok. Soon craps out in a situation like yours!
It never ends does it? Come on then. What am I buying? Tell me the name of it and I'll go and mug my the old lady next door. It'd be fun for her to have an actual reason to wet herself for once. More fun, anyway.
Not sure what to recommend TBH. I hate to say it but if you do a search there's mass debates on the topic of replacement batteries. I have a yuasa and keep it topped up on a CK monitor.
I bought an extra powerful one, I can't remember which one but it has more cranking power. I had to remove the stock rubber surround in the cradle for it to fit though. I think it was £40-45 quid ish.
That sounds good. Cheapish, for a bike battery too. I like cheap. Especially now this stupid thing has bankrupt me before I've even ridden it. If you remember who makes it could you let me know, please?
I think its a Yuasa YTX14 BS if thats a physically larger battery than the standard one. Bike is in for a full service at the moment so I cannot check for certain. I think the cranking power was up on the standard battery. Plenty on the web around the £40 - £45 price with free delivery.
Worth a thought.. Sounds very similar to what happens to a mate or mine at Jerez with his 1098 Unloaded his bike, fired it up 2 mins later it dies and we tried everything over the 3 days to get it started. Alas it was not to be. Turns out it was water in the fuel system. Not sure how it got there but it was there and it ruined his track day
That's an interesting idea. Maybe that's it? Hopefully replacing the fuel filter and dropping all the fuel that's in there all over my best jeans will help cross that off the list too. Thanks so much for all your help so far, folks. This place is always ace.
Ok, I've found YTX20A- BS, which is a 'normal' batt (meaning one I can leave a trickle charger on) that will fit with 270cca. Any reason why I can't do that? There's no CCA that's too high is there? It's just the initial cranking force. It's a few quid more but assuming it can't overload/ overwhelm anything, I can only think it would help.
Ok. Just to round this thread out, as I can't stand it when people ask for help, don't say thanks and don't report back what was wrong. So, the bike is now running. Currently. It's not broken as of this moment. So far. Currently. At this present time. Off ground ex-cees no touch backs. And, as expected, you were all right. It was all broken. All of it. Everywhere. If only we'd thought to look everywhere, right? I changed the reg/ rec, the plugs, the fuel filter, the relays, hollowed out the battery box and put a large nuclear reactor in there, cleaned the injectors, took up way more of ChrisW's time than I should have clearing codes and resetting things using his kindly loaned kit (he's a properly brilliant human, by the way. Did you know that? Well, now you do. Write to him and tell him he's ace, this instant) and also added new stickers. Whilst that's the least scientific approach ever as it doesn't allow us to determine what individual thing was wrong it does mean 3 things. 1: you won't have to listen to me bleat on again for literally tens of minutes, as it's still currently working. 2: you lot are awesome. 3: stickers fix everything. Thank you so much for all of your help and patience. I'll report back as soon as I get a chance to test it. Hopefully it'll stop snowing before the bike stops working, ie by this afternoon. Thanks again you lot. You rule.
Funny you should say that. There's a couple of extra lumps now that I look. I'm sure it's nothing tho.
