Worried!

Hey guys, had to take the rsv to work today on those salty roads, cause my supermoto is of the road cause im waiting for some shims to arrive for it. As i left work i got about 10 miles away from home and a really heavy knocking sound appeared from my engine and i lost all power from my bike and all i wanted to do was get home and wash the salt from my bike. but nope i ended up sat on the side of the road from 2pm till about 8pm with the tank up and the air box off, looking for problems! i checked the plugs with the spares i had with me they was fine, oil level was ok, water level was ok, no pipes was pinched, and no lose wires and i couldn't find it and i had no way to get home but to push it! so i sat down for about twenty minutes whilst smoking a *** in a huff, looked down the road and thought theres no way am i pushing it 10 miles to my house, so i did one last check over my bike and still couldn't find it so i decided to start it to see if the nose would have stopped, it started, still banging away, but cause it was dark by this time i see a ray of sparks shooting across the front cylinder head from the plug cap, i stopped it in a panic and had a look at the plug cap and i had a hole the size of a pin prick about half way up the plug cap where the sparks had been coming from, so i tapped it over with some black electrical tap and put it all back together and..........WAL LA! it started perfectly first time with no popping or banging! just back to the real grunt from a aprilia v-twin! i manged to get it home now and cleaned off ready for next time, just got to order some new plug caps! :thumbup now!

I'd of shat my pants


Glad it is a cheap fix

Thats the first thing I would have checked :eatcorn.......who am I kidding I wouldn't have had a clue :biggrin well done matey glad you got it sorted, you would never have seen that if it had happened on the eay to work with it being daylight. A good lesson for us all I think and I'm going to stick some electrical tape in the tool kit just in case that happens to me :thumbup

Shame you were stranded for so long but at least you have the satisfaction of having discovered the problem yourself and it's a cheap fix.

Same thought as me there sprocker! Useful stuff that tape.

well done old bean !!! the joys of motorcycling !

join the AA lol, I had to use em yrs ago when the cam chain tensioner fell out my zx7r.

Glad it was a cheap fix, I started thinking big ends from your description

check your insurance you might have brake down covered though them! Used mine a few times now (mainly when i've bined it...)

:thumbup Electrical tape to the rescue :thumbup glad you got back without a bad back m8 .. some tape is going in with the tool kit :thumbup

I had that problem about a year ago cracked sparkplug cap and it was shorting out so yes new cap cheap fix It's the only problem I've ever had with the bike in 4 years

Glad all worked out for ya bud :thumbup Will jump on the band wagon with the tip on the tape :devious:biggrin

Another tip, I always carry a bunch of tie-wraps for those un-planned occasions. Snapped the Right rear set on my last bike and these came in pretty handy to get me home :biggrin would have been a 20 mile push otherwise :roll

manged to bodge a snapped clutch leaver back togeather on my greenlaner like that bloody good job as i was 6 miles way from the nearest road, foke pushing a bike though all that mud!

sorry to hear about the incident, glad to hear it was not internal, great tale to be told and i just hope it registers in my trouble shooting memory banks , many have been deleted from years of shall i say the good life.Cheeeeeerrss! 19.

Yea, well I remember the time when me conrod snapped and chucked the piston out through the side of the crank case and left a hole as big as my fist. But luckily I managed to tuck all the bits back in and cover the hole with some insulating tape and do you know that bike ran like a dream until the day that ebay punter got it home. Great bikes Aprilia.

Cheers.

H..

forgot to say..i once staped a batton on my hanglider and bodged it back togeather with electric tape. Flew another 15 hours before i tracked down a new one worked a treat

my tool box on the bike is, spanner-cabel ties-electric tape. Yet to have a problem i couldnt fix (including crashing and taping the panels back togeather :thumbup )

Im reading that all of you guys are going to carry tape , Maybe im just a dumb Aussie or wouldnt be easier to just carry a couple of spare leads , ive never had this problem and dont know if they are easy to fix but any feedback would be nice on this subject .:dunno

You'll be amazed at what emergency repairs you can do with just duct tape and cable ties :biggrin