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So I took the day off and decided to take the wife up to Devils bridge.
She's not been on the bike since before being preggers and our son is now 13mo. so it's been a while. Went up the A59 turning left as Gisburn and onto the A65. All was going well, getting a shift on until they have a set of roadworks and lights on the A65. Sign just before bend; right lane ends 200yds ahead, start slowing, go round corner and bang. Here's the closed lane (about half the distance from the sign) and a massive que with no room to filter. Got to the bridge, had a cuppa and butty then we needed to head back sharpish. Decided to go through Caton and jump on the M6 at Lancaster. Hit a massive tail back. I was averaging about 15mph filtering and it took an hour to clear it (we stopped in gap in the outside lane carpark at one point to phone to folks as we needed the little fella picking up). Some idiot was threatening to throw himself off a bridge. Booted it down to Darwen, coming through the town and loose the clocks, then loose all power (think it my be the alarm) So I phoned the dealer in Blackburn, who got me onto the RAC, whilst waiting I was admiring the lack of chicken strips figuring out how far over I'd had it when I noticed a hole inside one of the treads. I could see canvas, so another rear now needed (probably picked up off the hard shoulder as we had to use it and there were a few other nicks down the tyres center) So the last I saw of the bike was it on a trailer head towards Philip Youles, whilst we were picked up by the mother in law and brought home. I'm now banning the wife from pillion for another 2 years.
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They say bad luck comes in 3's but thats just plain unlucky, hope ya get your bike fixed soon
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Not all bad as I'm on holiday from Sat for a week.
Pretty sure it's the alarm which should be an easy fix. All the fuses were fine, one of the spare bullet connectors was bare (the cover had mysteriously shrunk (must have been all that rain) and I could disarm the alarm when it went off to stop the din, but couldn't disarm fully so it would reset and go off again. Still under warrenty which is nice. At least now I'll have new rubber on the bike as the first 500mi. I was running it in, the next 500-1K geeting a proper feel for it, and just now having real fun. The Qualifier on the rear is begining to square off.
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Sorted!.
Reg/Rec has gone, theory is it's a commonish fault and that it gets upgraded when they go (will have a chat when I go and pick the bike up) rear Qualifier was £126 fitted, so not too bad all in all. Just need to pick it up and go and play now.
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and play we will pal
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