MORE STUPID STILL WAS THAT I SAW IT COMING, THE BATTERY WARNING LIGHT HAD BEEN GIVING ME THE HEADS-UP FOR WEEKS, COMING ON INITIALLY ON START UP THEN GOING OFF, YESTERDAY AS I FLOGGED TOWARD MY DESTINATION IT DIDN'T GO OFF . . . . YEP, NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ONCE THE SPARK BOX STOPS SPARKING, STRANDED FOR THREE FAIRLY ENJOYABLE HOURS BETWEEN THE LANES OF AUSTRALIA'S NUMBER ONE HIGHWAY . . . . ROSCOE MADE THE SELFLESS RESCUE MISSION IN THE UTE AFTER HE KNOCKED OFF AT SIX P.M ARMED WITH THE WRONG REPLACEMENT BATTERY, THE PARTS DUDE MAY BE JOBLESS COME MONDAY, NONETHELESS, GOT IT ALL SORTED TODAY AND I'M READY TO ROLL ON THE MORROW . . . . IT FELT KINDA GOOD TO BE HONEST, FIRST TIME IN SOME TIME, RELAX INTO THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION, HAVE A LIE DOWN IN THE SHADE AS THE SUN SETS, SNAP SOME PICS, CHAT WITH THE NOMADS CHAP AFTER JOHN Q. LAW GIVES HIM THE ONCE OVER AND JUST WAIT FOR THE RESCUE VEEHICKLE . . . . THE PENIS MOBILE WAS A SPORTSTER 24 FOR A WHILE.
arse. You got the right approach though, making the most of having to do nothing!!
ReplyDeleteCheers mate, nothing else to do but that, always had the same approach.
Deletenice pic's mucker, never had any trouble with the battery on my sporty in eleven years, had jappers fuck them in a year, like you said, perhaps all the electickery majik immobilisor bollocks and stuff? never had any luck with those battery charger / tender things, they just boil the battery dry in my experience, mate told me to just fire up your bike every week and your battery will be ok, work's ok for me, just saying......
ReplyDeleteThanks Lovey, I'm with you mate, just ride/start the bloody thing weekly and all is well . . . but three and half years is pretty good value so my trusted source at the dealer who supplied the new batt at trade, in the 56,000klms it's all the starts and all that electrickery shit hanging of it that kills them in three to four rather than up to eight and ten in older bikes, same with my Focus too.
Delete...and now they have a new gizmo that plugs into your battery tender lead...so you can charge your new fangled cellyphone. Better put some solar panels on your skid lid (as we speak some guy is prototyping it..).
ReplyDeleteIt seems I always find the strangest things along the sides of roads...as I await rescue...
World's gone gizmo fucking mad mate . . . one of the half dozen riders who pulled over to see if I was okay had his ipod thingy blairing in his ears, couldn't here a word I was trying to say to him . . . I just waved him off with a smile when he started fumbling for his pocket to unhook the earplugs . . . weird times Laz, I always thought half the joy of pretending we're Pirsig or HST out in the breeze was seeing, feeling and hearing the entire experience.
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