recently I toured on my well prepped gen 2 tuono , france Switzerland and the aosta valley in Italy .
on the ride thru france 1 of my 2 mates I was with kept saying the fumes from my bike were realy strong s well as being anti social ( akrs,s and no baffles ) .
every time I filled up the tank fuel leaked from the fuel cap , easy fix when home !!! high ethanol fuel and all that you know tank stretch !!
I filled up with fuel in martigny Switzerland before heading up the grand s t Bernard pass ( absolutely stunning ) I was the only one who tanked up !!!
we stop at the top of the mountain to **** about in the snow and breath in the cold mountain air well it was 34 c in evian where we were based !!
anyway kitted up off we go , bike dead no battery power !! so bump started it on had a mad thrash down into the aosta valley on the Italian side ( fantastic )
nearest I got to knee down with rear sets !!!.
at the bottom the bike performed impeccably idled like a good !un , we carried on and the bike stalled and wouldn't start , on inspection batt terminals vibrated
loose !!! tightn up off we go , from then on the bike was constantly stuttering and popping more or less continually over the next 4 days , often ran ok above
4000 rpm . but a reight pain in the *** below ie in traffic , temp on dash reached 110 c several times and the stator case would boil water !! not good me
thinks . after several more instances of flat battery it was obvious that the stator was overheating and was in the process of breaking down .
after taking a wrong turn near nancy in france ont way back to Calais the bike finally died , no power no clocks ( which had been going haywire periodically )
dead battery . up shot one well fried stator .
after an hour on the phone to the aa with diminishing credit and battery , I came to the conclusion that I hadn't infact got eu breakdown and recovery , and the
******* AA washed their hands of me , dumped at the side of a motorway 500 miles from home . the AA wouldn't upgrade my cover or do a deal for a one off
recovery . all they would pay for as im a gold card member ( reward for being a member for years and years , or continuously fleeced as the case may be )
the recovery fee and storage of my bike until collection .
so in a nut shell my bike is still immobile sat in a hgv garage in france awaiting recovery by a private specialist courier at great cost .
im now back at work and missing my bike , don't want to order all the bits until I see the bike again .
it is not fun travelling 500 miles back home on the back of a fazer thou either .
so the moral of the story is GET YOUR SELF SOME EU BREAKDOWN AND REPEAT AND RECOVERY even if its for a short term , ive never had it and thought itll
never happen to me !!!!!
on the ride thru france 1 of my 2 mates I was with kept saying the fumes from my bike were realy strong s well as being anti social ( akrs,s and no baffles ) .
every time I filled up the tank fuel leaked from the fuel cap , easy fix when home !!! high ethanol fuel and all that you know tank stretch !!
I filled up with fuel in martigny Switzerland before heading up the grand s t Bernard pass ( absolutely stunning ) I was the only one who tanked up !!!
we stop at the top of the mountain to **** about in the snow and breath in the cold mountain air well it was 34 c in evian where we were based !!
anyway kitted up off we go , bike dead no battery power !! so bump started it on had a mad thrash down into the aosta valley on the Italian side ( fantastic )
nearest I got to knee down with rear sets !!!.
at the bottom the bike performed impeccably idled like a good !un , we carried on and the bike stalled and wouldn't start , on inspection batt terminals vibrated
loose !!! tightn up off we go , from then on the bike was constantly stuttering and popping more or less continually over the next 4 days , often ran ok above
4000 rpm . but a reight pain in the *** below ie in traffic , temp on dash reached 110 c several times and the stator case would boil water !! not good me
thinks . after several more instances of flat battery it was obvious that the stator was overheating and was in the process of breaking down .
after taking a wrong turn near nancy in france ont way back to Calais the bike finally died , no power no clocks ( which had been going haywire periodically )
dead battery . up shot one well fried stator .
after an hour on the phone to the aa with diminishing credit and battery , I came to the conclusion that I hadn't infact got eu breakdown and recovery , and the
******* AA washed their hands of me , dumped at the side of a motorway 500 miles from home . the AA wouldn't upgrade my cover or do a deal for a one off
recovery . all they would pay for as im a gold card member ( reward for being a member for years and years , or continuously fleeced as the case may be )
the recovery fee and storage of my bike until collection .
so in a nut shell my bike is still immobile sat in a hgv garage in france awaiting recovery by a private specialist courier at great cost .
im now back at work and missing my bike , don't want to order all the bits until I see the bike again .
it is not fun travelling 500 miles back home on the back of a fazer thou either .
so the moral of the story is GET YOUR SELF SOME EU BREAKDOWN AND REPEAT AND RECOVERY even if its for a short term , ive never had it and thought itll
never happen to me !!!!!
