Last night I get ready to go to work. Keys in the bike push on the starter button and… nothing. !@$#$$# of course always happens when you have to be at work in five minutes…
Checked the fuses, power, cabling, killswitch, clutch level, neutral light, all seems to be in order but no start. So before I WALK to work I post a quick description of the problem to the German NTV forum on the net.
By the time I come back, there are a million replies, most of them pointing towards the starter relay as a possible point of failure. I’m overwhelmed by the responses. One guy even describes the ENTIRE STARTER CIRCUITRY on the NTV from the fuse box to the kill switch/sidestand sensor/neutral light/clutch level/starter coil/fuel pump/starter relay including the COLOR of every wire inbetween!! Absolutely bloody amazing.
I ask “the starter relay? what does it look like and where is it located?”
Five minutes later there is a reply with a high-resolution photograph of the bike with fairing off with the starter relay circled.
Go outside, remove some fairing, wiggle the starter relay, seemed to be a bit loose, push the starter button and…
“…whirr…whirr… bobobobobboBOBOBOBOBBvrooomm!”
I love the biker community on the internet, most helpful bunch of people ever!
