Coming home from work My bike shuts off on me while 80 on the highway at night. i pulled over in the breakdown lane. i noticed I did not run out of gas which i thought was the reason. Before all this happened I noticed my two bulbs in my acerbis headlight were dimming while i was riding. I ignored them off coarse thinking it was the actual bulbs that were messed up. I tried starting my bike and all i got in return was a clicking sound....it didnt even turnover once. i noticed my headlight was dimming again. i push started it and got it running...went 20 feet ....bogged and died again. did it again and got the same result. I'm pretty sure its my battery but i was thinking could it be my alternator as well. i was riding for about 20 minutes before i got on the highway when my bike just bogged and died.

while sitting on the side of the highway for 30 minutes, somebody finally stops by with a truck and gives me and my bike a ride home.

What do you guys think?

 

regulator/rectifier probably **** the bed and isn't charging your battery...


put your battery on a battery charger over night then start the bike and put a voltage meter on the battery , it should be 13.5 volts or higher when you rev it up ..

if it's not then you have a charging system problem and if you don't know how to check your stator or regulator then i suggest having some one check it for you so your not just buying parts and hoping you got it right

 

that or the stator is toast.... definetly one of the 2.

 

could it be just a loose connection

 

could be....


could be a bad ground too... check the main connection on the battery 1st.

 

ya i put my friends battery in and my bike started right up and ran fine.....could my altinator still be fried?

 

Yea it could be.... run it for a while and see if the battery dies out. Or just test it w/ a voltmeter.

You should have about 13-14.5v at about 3000rpm. If you have less than 12 your stator and/or rectifier/regulator is gone.

Get a voltmeter... you'll get ALOT of use out of it.

 

it sounds like i had the same exact thing happen to me and it ended up being a loose connection from the battery, tightened everything up and no probs since.