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So the bike sits for almost 2 weeks due to the rain, silly me never thought to run up to the storage area and at least start it up and let it run during that entire period. So today I get out of work and figure its a nice day, I'll go for a short little ride around town and run some errands maybe. Get there to start it..........put key in, turn it.......no lights, nothing. Great, so the battery is dead.
I didnt have jumper cables in my car, but luckily the building next door was a Leader Home Center, so I walk over, purchase some cables, go jump the bike, no problem. Again, silly me never gave it a thought and proceeded to ride about 3 miles down the road to get gas. Well, in the entire 57 seconds it takes to fill up the gas tank, the battery is dead already. So being a few miles from home, I call and get someone to come down and jump me. No problem again, except I notice something funny when I hook up the jumper cables.........the marker lights and tail light all stay on regardless of whether the key is in or not. So after a few failed attempts at getting it to stay running at low idle, I jump it again and pull the choke wide open and let the thing sit at 4k rpms while I put my gear back on.
So I figure I wont chance it and head straight home to put the battery on a charger. Again, I get home and pull the key out and notice an odd thing.......all the lights are still on. So I figure I'll worry about that later and proceed to start disconnecting the battery terminals so I can bring it inside. + comes off nicely, I go to loosen the bolt on the - terminal and the fucking battery post snaps off the battery. Yay.
So now I have a bike that the lights wont turn off on, with a dead battery that has one of its posts snapped off. Joy. Such is the pleasure of owning a thrice previously owned bike with some hackjob wiring by one of the previous owners and a notchy 2nd gear. :|
Theres a guy at work who has an 01' R6 with 7500 miles on it, about 300 of which hes put on himself in the past 2 years. Hes got about $2500 left on his loan, I'm gonna try and talk him into letting me take over the loan and buying the bike off him. I'll sell the other ride and I'm sure someone can pull all the lights off it and wire it to be a nice track bike.