| Author | Message | ||
     Ratbuell |
Factory heated grips, factory Garmin Quest II GPS mount, Kuryakyn LED voltmeter on the base of the GPS mount. RH switch housing (with the kill switch, start button, and heated grip control) STINKS of burning circuitry. I think it only does it when the grips are on but I'll ride to work today without them and see if it's still there. Grips work fine. Bike starts and runs fine. GPS works fine. It stinks bad enough that when I pulled into the garage yesterday, I noticed it when I was standing next to the bike. I thought I had a mis-wired HID bulb or something, but checking that out this morning I zeroed in on the switch housing. Anyone else run into this? Am I looking at a contact-cleaning, or a new switch housing? I don't have time for a disassemble before work, but I can probably pull it apart and clean it tonight... | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Yeah you better open that up and check it out. If it's bad enough to make a stink, there should be some visual clues in there. Happy hunting, and let us know what you find, OK? | ||
| Etennuly |
About the only thing that will do that kind of electrical resistance would be the grip heater. Everything else should have blown a fuse. | ||
| Froggy |
Last time I put D616s on my bike it started stinking too | ||
| Tootal |
 Dammit Froggy, I just shot beer out my nose!! | ||
| Etennuly |
Sniffing handle bars.....wasn't that a bar trick back in the 80's?  | ||
| Ratbuell |
Well turns out the problem was the lugnut on the drivers seat. When I bent down to check the adjustment for the recently-installed HID bulb...my overly-thick and bulky FXRG jacket hit the front header pipe and melted a hole the size of an ice cream scoop in the sleeve. Duh. Everyone may disregard this thread, as well as the moron who started it... | ||
| Svh |
Lol!!! I did something very similar unfortunately once. Shortly after starting a trip my wife and I had to stop at a bank. It was summer and warm so when she ran in I took my coat off and hung it on the right handlebar. Walk back over to the left side, downwind, and smell something burning. Get on my knees and start looking the damn thing over. Can't find anything so head to the otherside to find my jacket melting to the header! I have about a 2" hole in the jacket plus you can still see the spot on the headers to remind me everytime I ride. The plastic I couldn't scrape off was burning off for a good part of the next leg of the trip and the wife was letting me know how bad it stunk. I feel your pain Joe | ||
| Ratbuell |
The layer of grime that I keep on the bike kept any of the jacket from sticking. That's why I didn't see it. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...no pun intended!) | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Ive done that too. I laid my old riding jacket across the back of my X1 on a hot day. Cooked a sleeve pretty nicely. | ||
| Reepicheep |
I have a whole pile of "melted" gear bits.  And burnt lips taste awful. Don't ask me how I know (DAMHIK).  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Burnt lips = self contained barbecue. | ||
| Etennuly |
We probably will not be able to let this thread go.....at least until it becomes political or gun controlled as a bent topic. Oh.....I nearly forgot.....   Yep, I did that to a pair of ballistic zip over mesh pants once! You really did sniff your handle bar didn't you!  | ||
| Froggy |
A few weeks ago I was at the doctor, it was raining that day, and I was leaving my gear outside, so I carefully bundled everything up inside the suit and folded it and placed it on the ground next to the bike, that way my helmet and everything will stay dry. I come out from the doctor and found someone had picked it up, put the helmet on the mirror, and draped the suit over the soaking wet bike. I'm glad the bike was cold at that point, otherwise both pant legs would of melted to the header as it was resting on it. Oh yea, and because of this douche I had to ride to work soaking wet as the inside of the suit and helmet got drenched. Who the •••• touches someone else's shit? | ||
| Ourdee |
I thought you were going to say it was missing. They probably thought they were helping. Looked like you forgot your stuff to them. Only time I leave my stuff on the ground by the bike is at HomeComing. But, as you suggest, "If it ain't your's, leave it alone!". I agree. I had a guy at work that got mad at me. Clown put my helmet and gear outside when it was raining. I've been watching "karma" take it's toll on him ever since.  | ||
| Ourdee |
Reepicheep, I like roasting marshmallows, even in the winter. So..., I have an antique silver pickle fork that I use to roast them over the stove. Held the fork over the flame wrong in the early indoor roasting days and seared my lips. | ||
| Mnrider |
Sux you melted a perfectly good jacket. Maybe sew a patch over it or something. | ||
| Ourdee |
Joe, Sounds like an excuse to stick a neat patch on it. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Yup. And believe it or not, when oxy-actylene welding with filler rod, some of those rods that aren't red hot anymore are still pretty darn hot... if you put the wrong end of the filler stick in your mouth for just a second while you reposition the work. I heard it before I felt it, then tasted it for a week. Eeech. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
"Who the •••• touches someone else's shit?" +1 on someone that thought he was helping. I was "that guy" once: I used to work in the city and had to park in a garage. I was commuting on my poor old ironhead at the time so my heart went out when I saw that someone had parked his old Guzzi on the centerstand on top of the pavement on a hot day. It sunk in and tipped over. Mirror was cocked over and some scratches happened so I picked it up for him. The next day, I found his bike was still there and had tipped over AGAIN. This time, damage was much more. Broken sparkplug and more damage of bodywork. If I had just left the poor thing alone, the damage would have been much less. The second time, I got the security guy to help me move it to cement so it wouldn't tip over again. | ||
| Ourdee |
That's why I put two bends in my filler rod. I can lay it down and still pick it back up without taking a glove off. I use a goatskin glove on my right hand and have grabbed the wrong end a couple of times. Worst time last year was mig welding w/bronze silica wire, and a ball found its way inside my helmet and stuck to my lower lip. Hate it when that happens. What was this thread about? | ||
| Zac4mac |
Speaking of ironheads, years ago I was looking for the source of an oil leak after a ride. I'm on my knees craning my head around the motor when I got stuck. then the pain hit... I pulled my forehead off the header and healed for a month... | ||
| Ratbuell |
Well...it's strictly a winter coat. My Bolt jacket takes most of my fall/spring riding, and the Vanson/mesh jackets handle the summer stuff. I just wear the old FXRG because it has a liner, and still has room for my heated liner underneath without turning me COMPLETELY into the Michelin Man. I'll probably spray that forearm with some undercoating and call it a season | ||
| Etennuly |
I was oxy-acetylene welding an exhaust system with steel rod, long before most shops had MIG welders, when a guy walked by me and tripped over my foot. I was on a creeper and did not even know he was in the shop. I jumped, the torch popped, and somehow I ran the red hot welding rod into the tip of my finger into the bone. Getting the rod back out was a trick. It cooled and stuck in there. Awesome thing was you could see the charred bone in the hole that was in my finger. This thread was about exhaust pipes and burned stuff right? | ||
| Motorbike |
Cool! Got any pictures? | ||
| Reepicheep |
So what is the best seasoning for burnt lips? I recommend Jim Beam. By about the fourth glass, the lips will taste fine. (Message edited by reepicheep on January 09, 2013) | ||
| Etennuly |
Cool! Got any pictures? No, but one of my fingers still has a distorted pattern in it's finger print. Back then cameras were only carried out of the house for special occasions. Hey Reep.....I used Southern Comfort to fix my finger. Smoothed it right out!  Oddly enough I had to pour it over the lips to make the finger feel better. | ||
| Luftkoph |
In 77 I had a brand new gs 550 suzuki,I was to meet a girl to go riding after she got off work,I told her wear pants and shoes no shorty shorts and sandals please get there what does she have on,you guessed it,says I watch the pipes they are hot.A young lady with beautiful legs now has a scar to ever remember,and probably cusses me every time she looks at it. Sorry Natalie,you were warned,where ever you might be. |
