Right this confuses me, went to try the bike today worked ok but I pressed the hotgrips button and it turned off the clocks and associated electrics again, pressed the button again and it went back to normal. Stopped the engine rearmed the alarm and tried again with the other key and fob, still the same.
unplugged the hotgrips control unit from the bike but assoon as I press the ignition button the clocks go off for a second and restart (although don't go away completely as they were doing) for the next few seconds/10 seconds on the tick over they flicker as if being interfered with by the vibrations.
So says to me lose connection or bad earth - does anyone know which/where these would be?
The fact a flick of the button (of the switch that was wired into the associated electrics) was turning off the clocks (ie creating the same symptoms) to me, doesn't seem like a coincidence. I'm guessing (I know very little about bike electrics) pressing the hot grips switch in that circuit was earthing out the bike and losing my clocks but when I unpressed the switch the system went back to normal. Something is also having the same affect on the bike and it seems to be vibration/movement related.