Fozzie

It moving to the left more easily than the right either suggests the head bearings are worn, and a slight difference on the left side of the bearing is causing it to fall more easily. Or your wheel bearings weren't really replaced, or at least done properly.

Try bump starting it first, as if it fires up or tries to it says that the battery or charging circuit are to blame.

It is getting a bit overcomplicated here, everything suggests a battery failure and not much else. Replace the battery, measure the voltage levels and see what is happening first. This doesn't reek of an earth failure fortunately. But I'm sure it will come around some day for this bike

Blast, I need you sat in front of a white board as a lot of it requires drawings. Earth just means an equilibrium. Voltage of any kind is created from a difference in electron flow. You are stood on the earth and have a balance with it, but if you drag your feet on the carpet and get a static shock, that is where you increased your potential difference, and the flow heads towards the easiest path to earth. Usually a zap at your finger as it moves into something very conductive. In a closed system like a motorbike, the negative terminal of the battery acts as an earth, you may also have various electrical items around the bike with an earth on the frame or engine case. Such as the starter motor. Basically, look at a wiring diagram for your bike, or send it to me as I have to put up with them all day for work anyway, and identify the earth. Also snap some pics of the starter motor area and I can see the general condition. Lets get this ol beemer going.

Reg/Rec will have totally broken down and pure AC voltage is flowing from your alternator straight to the battery and basically boiling it dry and killing it. It's happened to me once, typical of the Italian 2-stroke I had, always looking to blow *something* up. As your bike conked out after use, it sounds more like a dodgy battery than a reg/rec going though. When that goes, the lights get dimmer and dimmer. Whereas a battery works until it basically falls off a cliff and can still work once the bike is running, but is not strong enough to provide starting current to the motor. Your lights will be using very little amps so the battery hasn't died enough to no longer be able to support them, whereas the motor pulls a huge amount for a brief period and literally a few % of performance loss can make the difference between it starting, or a motor stall which is what that click and dead stick is. Basically all the batteries energy is being pulled into the motor circuit but it's not strong enough to start it.

Turn the multimeter to the 20 setting in the "V" area for DC. The V will have a solid line with three dots under it sitting next to it indicating DC. Use this one as there are usually two on the multimeter, one for AC and one for DC but DC is usually the only one with a 20 setting. The AC setting is a V with a wavey line next to it. Here's a helpful website: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ho ... ng-voltage Red on red, black on black for the leads to battery terminal. Measure the reading when the bike is off, and again when it is running. If you're reading somewhere in the early 13v area when the bike is running, and doesn't shoot up when you rev it, everything is fine and it was a duff battery. If the reading changes like the wind, is too low, too high, you have a bust reg/rec. If no reading at all, you may even be getting pure AC straight to the battery Edit- I'm on a late one, if you do it tonight, FB a pic of what it's doing at various rpms (providing it is the battery) I'm about and can quickly say "yes that looks alright" or "Looks a bit dodgy, check the manual and forum" if you need a quick answer as the light fails.

I'd think wheel bearings too if it did it all the time rather than just when turned full lock. The bike has done quite a bit of mileage, so might be worth doing the wheel bearings anyway. Fairly easy and cheap to do

A judder at full lock could be a steering head bearing issue. Get the handlebars off, get to the steering bearing locking nut, loosen it right off, then readjust to your bikes manual spec. You will need a C-spanner. And see what happens, it's a free, time consuming but easy trick. BTW you can ride the bike like this still, it just means it's probably a little bit out of adjustment, the handlebars on the last bike I did a steering bearing change on got very flappy after 1000 miles once the bearings were probably bed in and they caused a loosening. But this can happen throughout the life of the bearing. Failing that I have had similar caused by a warped disc, smacking a disk lock is no big deal unless you bend the fork and wouldn't be able to cause the issue described just to put your mind at ease. Only did it when I turned the bars full lock left, and later determined the slight movements in the brake line at such lock was causing a tiny bit of braking pressure to be applied, just enough that every notch in the disk was painfully apparent. Whack a new battery on there, then check the charging levels with a multimeter, which I assume having had a chinese bike you are well versed with now. If it's that just check to make sure it's a dead battery and not a shagged alternator/reg/rec And for some back info there to set your mind at ease, my old silver Honda CBR600F was a bast*rd for this. Rode it fine all week, did 50 miles one night then stopped in a petrol station. Get on, key on, all ECU checks done, thunderbirds ar...*click* and everything went dead followed by "motherfuckingpieceofshittingjapanesecraphondabastardliarsprickswithshittingdodgyelectrics" But then it jumped started fine, so do the ecu checks, whack it in 2nd or 3rd with it being a single and try to bump start.

I learnt on one of these and can say it's a poor mans CG125. It does everything the same as a CG, but slightly worse. So it's ok as a beginner bike, but of all the beginner bikes you can get much better for not that much extra dosh.

I have neither nor was I saying your opinion is wrong, just it seemed common sense to look at the flip side as well rather than just the bleak It's a challenge to be positive these days. Being negative seems the realistic choice, especially as by the time you've left your teens you find adulthood is no fun either. If life is bad no one seems to help, and if life is good people seem to sneer. People hate others without a single logical reason other than the ones they invent, and it seems impossible to be accepted for who you are, so it's no wonder society has major identification issues. End of it all, we have our bikes, hopefully our health. And as you said, enjoy the little things.

Bit bleak You can always rely on loved ones and family. Not in every instance but in most. We set the limits for reliance, and hold those we place it in accountable for it. Which is why I'd say only rely on those for things you can realistically expect, and if you owe anything, owe allegiance/trust etc. Best life lesson can be summed up by the life of brians "always look on the bright side of life"

Keep your morals, even when others are losing their own. Just about kept life from going to absolute shit a number of times

Wait.... PH has not posted a reply yet! Possibly because he's busy gunning them down now, strangling is so last week

Can't speak for others but I thought her tv shows were quality Blind date was hilarious when they stitched someone up with a minger and they had to pretend like they weren't appalled on camera

Life go's on, after a few years she will be in bed with someone else and you will be a distant memory. Kids will be calling someone else dad. That's preferable if I went as I know everything would be secure but unfortunately that statement is more accurate if you caused the *relationship* to die, rather than yourself. As it better allows the person to move on. When someone in the relationship dies it's a mixed pot as its so traumatic. Some recover and start, even if begrudgingly, looking for someone new, and others just don't let go. And as you're dead, you don't know, so you wouldn't care, but right now I want to avoid that reality

No one has a gripe there Listening to her music was proof there are less fun things than drowning.

Yep I mistyped after deleting a segment, it was meant to be that he was killed by a loony afgan solider. But anyway. Simple point is, why do you care? And why point it out only when a famed Liverpudlian dies? It would seem to me you were looking for a platform to speak as much as they were looking for a platform to let their emotional guff be heard. This is what media wants you to do When a kid from my school died from cancer, it hit me quite hard. I didn't know the guy but it felt so shocking, it was a bit more personal. And that's what the news does, it makes it closer to home, it does it to make you watch, and to sell papers. Most of society doesn't care 1500 immigrants died at sea, but 4 Brits on a plane that went down gets more of a shock. By annoying you, they got you interested, and they don't care how, so while it's intelligent we notice this stuff, we then shit all over it by ranting about it

I'm covered for all of that and 4 years of my salary get paid to a benefactor of my choice. You could be killed tomorrow. But it's far more likely when on a bike. It's the thought of physically not being there as after a few years when the money has dried up, you leave all the work to the mother, and what if an accident befalls her? The impact on the family emotionally due to you not being there as well, just absolutely abhorrent to me. Biking won't stop, I'd knock riding in the week to work on the head as that's prime splatter time for bikes, and I'd not switch bikes very often. Like I said, point wasn't to divert your entire attention, it was aimed at PH as lately from what I've read it seems like his attention isn't split like it should be.

... Steady on. He suggested the reaction to the death of a soldier out in Iraq from Liverpool was disproportionate. As if there's an actual limit on how people should feel. One mans community banding together is anothers people jumping on the band wagon to be loved I agree but end of it all, someones mother has died.

When you have kids you will laugh at shit like this. You borght ??????, but you have kids. Somebody think of the kids. The "Shit like this" was beaten into me by parents who were bikers. One of which was my own dad. I said I'd not give up biking. Then was told it's much more likely to kill me if it goes wrong in a crash, and would I want to risk myself and leave a mother and child behind with a mortgage they likely can't afford, and leave two people without a partner/father. To me, that's such a horrible prospect I'd back off for a good few years. But being responsible is a terrible disease to some people. I've repeated myself now, go and buy a bike, xbox, tv, sound system, whatever. My gripe was with petrolhead it's a new thing every week. And suggest he should be prioritising other things right now. Call it wrong, unfortunately you'll never be right either.

Heatwave is ongoing I hear? Shame it's because we're buggering up the planet. But on the bright side we'll all soon be on electric motorbikes... Instant torque. Water looks lovely, but I bet in the middle of the day it still isn't cooling enough for the body!

It made me lol too, seeing as I suggested he just be a bit more "committed" rather than spend all your dosh on them. See... Invest in your kids, or they might lack reading skills. If it was bike parts to fix his bike no bother, as it's his transport. Just every other week I'm reading the next thing PH is getting himself into. Was just a suggestion he slow down and take a minute to think, does he really need a shotgun or is it an impulsive buy that would otherwise have been better spent doing something for the family. He seems a tad impulsive, and it's even what landed him a prison sentence. Can't really blame me for showing a bit of compassion and trying to say "stop, think, here is everything else you could be doing, now how do you feel?"

TBH the harsh response here was kind of expected. My own opinion? You have a new born daughter, why are you buying these things? Guns run the risk of inspiring a new kind of violence, in yourself or others around you. So I can't ever say they're a good thing. The money you spend on guns and bikes should be going elsewhere, your kids. We are at odds in how we handle money. I could do the same, but I view money as a tool for improving my own and others lives. I could have had an MT09, but instead, I put most of my dosh into a holiday with Moo, which as I'm happy with whatever, I've deliberately tailored to her to make it mind blowing for her preferences. I could probably be in a position to do the same again next year, but I'm moving up north and thinking of getting a project specifically so me and Ricky have a whale of a time on it fixing it up and modding the tits off it. But that's just my own way. But with kids? The attention switches to them. Their well being, their education, the things they are exposed to as youngster. I want them to see me doing all I can for them to improve their quality of life, and then want to do the same unto others when they can. Whereas you're off buying new chinese bikes and shotguns! I'm not saying you don't deserve it, if you earn the dosh fair and square, you earned the right to buy whatever the hell you like. But when kids come into the fray, I think you need to be committed to them more. That's just my take, no ill feelings towards you, this wasn't a personal jibe. Just a nudge on what should be a priority, you may well tell me countless things you do for them now but as you borrowed money for the new bike I don't know what's what really, I can only work off what I see and not what I know! And do you really need a shotgun?

Said on facebook but I'll get you here anyway! Happy Cake/Beer/Cider day

Not a big fan of being underground Got pranked as a kid, and then when I explored bunker drain in the north west, I spent the entire 3 mile trek worrying and one time the level did go from 5 inches to 5 feet in a matter of seconds and the water was travelling very fast. I'm a high place person myself, something seems more controllable about being up high