Hi all,
My first real post, I was hoping it wouldn't happen that fast. Picked up a red '99 last night, my first bike ever! Realized on my way to work (left it there as the parking is locked, lit, heated and the building has some security) that I had no turning signals. A few minutes of playing with the switch today revealed two different patterns:
- to indicate left, I have to really push the switch all the way to the left, then it will start indicating when I let it go back to neutral.
- to indicate right, I have to push the switch slowly to the right until the indicators start...well, to indicate. Any movement away from the magic spot, there's a tiny click (typical circuit breaking sound) and no indicators.
Both ways, the switch feels a bit sticky. Disengaging the switch (what's the correct English term for pushing it in to stop indicating?) works, at least there's the regular physical feedback when pressing it.
I test drove the bike two weeks ago, no sign of this issue then. My plan is to open it up tomorrow, inspect and clean the switch. Fingers crossed it only needs a bit of TLC as PO rode it 600km in total over three years...
Anyone else experienced something like this? Any advice I could get is useful, I can hardly see that this should be rocket science but you never know...
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My first real post, I was hoping it wouldn't happen that fast. Picked up a red '99 last night, my first bike ever! Realized on my way to work (left it there as the parking is locked, lit, heated and the building has some security) that I had no turning signals. A few minutes of playing with the switch today revealed two different patterns:
- to indicate left, I have to really push the switch all the way to the left, then it will start indicating when I let it go back to neutral.
- to indicate right, I have to push the switch slowly to the right until the indicators start...well, to indicate. Any movement away from the magic spot, there's a tiny click (typical circuit breaking sound) and no indicators.
Both ways, the switch feels a bit sticky. Disengaging the switch (what's the correct English term for pushing it in to stop indicating?) works, at least there's the regular physical feedback when pressing it.
I test drove the bike two weeks ago, no sign of this issue then. My plan is to open it up tomorrow, inspect and clean the switch. Fingers crossed it only needs a bit of TLC as PO rode it 600km in total over three years...
Anyone else experienced something like this? Any advice I could get is useful, I can hardly see that this should be rocket science but you never know...
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