Hi All,
I had an interesting evening on the Katana today. In Ontario, the temperatures have dropped to below freezing today but I decided to go out riding anyway. I gear up and begin my 80km ride. Brrr...it's cold but thankfully I'm wearing good equipment, including my Teknic Thunder winter gloves.
As I'm riding along, I noticed every so often that the high beam light would come on for a fraction of a second and then disappear. I thought 'Great, something is up with the electronics.' The issue seemed to be intermittent, so I know it's probably going to be hard to trouble shoot and likely expensive to fix.
Anyway, I try to keep an eye out and yes, the light flashes every so often. I'm thinking about the source of the problem (and smelling burning rubber) hoping to figure out a pattern. Then it dawns on me that it seems to happen when I shift gears so I'm thinking it could be related to the transmission. Well, I'm not mechanically gifted or an electronics wizard so I'm baffled as to what it can be. But then I had a 'duh' moment as I figured out the problem.
It seems my Teknic gloves comes with a mini squeegee on the index finger (to wipe your visor with) and being bulky the gloves occupy most of the handgrip. Well, when I go to shift gears and flex my finger, the squeegee part of the glove brushes up against the pass light lever, momentarily turning on the high beams.
The mystery was solved. I'm just glad it wasn't a mechnical or electronic component that was failing. Talk about a 'duh' moment.
I had an interesting evening on the Katana today. In Ontario, the temperatures have dropped to below freezing today but I decided to go out riding anyway. I gear up and begin my 80km ride. Brrr...it's cold but thankfully I'm wearing good equipment, including my Teknic Thunder winter gloves.
As I'm riding along, I noticed every so often that the high beam light would come on for a fraction of a second and then disappear. I thought 'Great, something is up with the electronics.' The issue seemed to be intermittent, so I know it's probably going to be hard to trouble shoot and likely expensive to fix.
Anyway, I try to keep an eye out and yes, the light flashes every so often. I'm thinking about the source of the problem (and smelling burning rubber) hoping to figure out a pattern. Then it dawns on me that it seems to happen when I shift gears so I'm thinking it could be related to the transmission. Well, I'm not mechanically gifted or an electronics wizard so I'm baffled as to what it can be. But then I had a 'duh' moment as I figured out the problem.
It seems my Teknic gloves comes with a mini squeegee on the index finger (to wipe your visor with) and being bulky the gloves occupy most of the handgrip. Well, when I go to shift gears and flex my finger, the squeegee part of the glove brushes up against the pass light lever, momentarily turning on the high beams.
The mystery was solved. I'm just glad it wasn't a mechnical or electronic component that was failing. Talk about a 'duh' moment.
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