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Last night, I got a call around 12:30 from some riders in my neck of the woods (figuratively), where one of the riders had been dumb-arsing and had come off his CBR954RR at 50 mph or so (on his feet)... he went running after it, but there was zero chance of catching up of course. The bike kept going for a while before it went off the road and crashed into a tree. Afterwards, his fuel pump wouldn't come on, nor his starter circuit and he didn't know why...
Damages were fairly minor and if it had been a Kat, standing it up, priming the carbs to refill them would have been all it took to make it fire again. But instead, I had to search the net to locate where Honda hides their bank angle sensor on that model & year (directly above the headlight, where the Kat has it's third eye), and then went out there and tried everything I could think of (after getting the cowlings off to get at it) to try to reset it short of physically disassembling the sealed part -- with no luck. What a royal PIA. Honda doesn't even use one like the Suzuki equivilent -- the Honda one has a suspended contact in an oil, and to each side is a contact it will hit if it reaches or exceeds 60 degrees of tilt. I couldn't find a reset button anywhere either... he ended up having to call for a trailer.
Just another reason to love my Kat -- if I take a minor to medium spill (anything shy of signficant suspension/engine/frame damages), I can still ride it home.
Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet
Damages were fairly minor and if it had been a Kat, standing it up, priming the carbs to refill them would have been all it took to make it fire again. But instead, I had to search the net to locate where Honda hides their bank angle sensor on that model & year (directly above the headlight, where the Kat has it's third eye), and then went out there and tried everything I could think of (after getting the cowlings off to get at it) to try to reset it short of physically disassembling the sealed part -- with no luck. What a royal PIA. Honda doesn't even use one like the Suzuki equivilent -- the Honda one has a suspended contact in an oil, and to each side is a contact it will hit if it reaches or exceeds 60 degrees of tilt. I couldn't find a reset button anywhere either... he ended up having to call for a trailer.
Just another reason to love my Kat -- if I take a minor to medium spill (anything shy of signficant suspension/engine/frame damages), I can still ride it home.
Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet
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