Joined Apr 2009
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Ok so picked bike up 3 days ago and on the first night i rode around 120miles all motorway and about 10 miles into this the bike cut out for a few seconds (dash stayed on) it was like you had hit the kill switch, at this time i was fecking around trying to get to grips with all the controls and i thought i may have hit the kill switch anyways bike ran find for remaining 110miles no issues. So next day a further 200 glitch free miles were covered at all differnt speeds mostly around motorway speed.
So yesterday and today i had been checking the bike over mainly looking at the rear brake, i did however check the brown connector all looks fine and i also checked the charging circuit with my multimetre and its up around 14.4v when the bike is running so all seems good.
Now tonight i was making my run to work for the week and around 60miles into the journey i am coming out of a 30mph zone and giving it some revs nothing major and the thing cuts out in with the clutch let it out still wont go nearly down to a crawl and then hit the starter and away she goes. Now through this the dash stayed lit, then around 3miles later she gave a little splutter no engine cut then for the next 20miles it was fine then cut again for a few seconds and it started itself whilst in drive. Bike then ran fine till work which was around 15miles more, so get to work switch off the bike then around 10mins later i go to start it and now when i switch it on it lights up and does the dash checks then comes up with ECU and like a connection symbol which i assume means plug in for diagnostics. Anyway it wont start or do anything in this state so anyone got any ideas what could be wrong and what needs to be done??
One other one the bike is fitted with a meta 357 alarm imobiliser are these likely to cause problems that would give this ECU in the Dash, if so is there a way to remove them??
Nearest decent Aprilia dealer is 70miles away in Dundee do i need to get the bike down to them??
Any help as normal much appretiated.
On a positive note when she was running it was fecking brilliant smile2 again but you know what like your head goes when you get problems with a new bike its hard to not be thinking about the thing cutting out sad33
Cheers
Mark
So yesterday and today i had been checking the bike over mainly looking at the rear brake, i did however check the brown connector all looks fine and i also checked the charging circuit with my multimetre and its up around 14.4v when the bike is running so all seems good.
Now tonight i was making my run to work for the week and around 60miles into the journey i am coming out of a 30mph zone and giving it some revs nothing major and the thing cuts out in with the clutch let it out still wont go nearly down to a crawl and then hit the starter and away she goes. Now through this the dash stayed lit, then around 3miles later she gave a little splutter no engine cut then for the next 20miles it was fine then cut again for a few seconds and it started itself whilst in drive. Bike then ran fine till work which was around 15miles more, so get to work switch off the bike then around 10mins later i go to start it and now when i switch it on it lights up and does the dash checks then comes up with ECU and like a connection symbol which i assume means plug in for diagnostics. Anyway it wont start or do anything in this state so anyone got any ideas what could be wrong and what needs to be done??
One other one the bike is fitted with a meta 357 alarm imobiliser are these likely to cause problems that would give this ECU in the Dash, if so is there a way to remove them??
Nearest decent Aprilia dealer is 70miles away in Dundee do i need to get the bike down to them??
Any help as normal much appretiated.
On a positive note when she was running it was fecking brilliant smile2 again but you know what like your head goes when you get problems with a new bike its hard to not be thinking about the thing cutting out sad33
Cheers
Mark