I want to share with you an experience, which became an important tip for the future.
What if suddenly, during the best part of the ride, our bike starts to “have a life of its own”, showing various anomaly messages, correcting it, showing it again, turning off the dashboard display and, suddenly, the engine starts to fail and stops?
Diagnosis: sudden death!
I tell you from experience that it is a heartbreaking feeling. Especially if the motorcycle is around a year old, has around 21000kms and maintenance has been carried out religiously on time and in the appropriate place!
In my case, the sudden death of the bike was due to a hypothetical battery anomaly.
This shock is the price to pay for the electronic management of the various devices, and the engine.
The ECU (Engine Control Unit), for example, currently better known as ECM (Engine Control Module), is the computer responsible for controlling the engine actuators.
Like any computer, without power it won’t work.
The big difference nowadays is that the unit responsible for providing energy to the motorcycle’s various electronic components, the battery, behaves differently.
In the past, with fluid-filled batteries, you would notice when the charge started to get weaker, and you could avoid getting stuck and replacing them. Currently, with the “dry batteries” that equip our motorcycles, this does not happen. They simply stop supplying energy from one moment to the next, without prior warning.
So, if a similar situation occurs to you, don’t stress about having to deal with a gigantic repair and an absurd cost. It is probably very simple to resolve and will only be the price of a new battery.
In my case, I once again had proof that careful use and maintenance pays off. The warranty covered the replacement and as soon as the new unit was fitted, it sprang back to life, as if nothing had happened and ready again, to take me wherever I told it to go.
Here’s a tip so that you can more easily identify and resolve a similar situation, should it happen to you.
Enjoy your ride
