I knew it was an old bike when I bought it on Apr 1st last year. It was a 2005 bike. But it looked well taken care of.
In the span of a single year despite enjoying the shit out of my dream bike, the rectifier blew out, costing me SGD 300 to replace. One day as I was heading home from work, I turned the bike on only to hear nothing from the fuel pump and almost panicked, until it suddenly came on by itself after turning it on and off a few times.
Now all of a sudden as I was heading home from work yesterday, I hear the engine sounding a bit different, almost like a triple. I had basically no acceleration anymore, and the bike vibrated a bit more than usual.
I got home and did the water spray test on the headers. True enough, one header wasn't drying as fast as the others.
God damn I'm pissed. Because I have an annual inspection to send it in this coming Saturday. I just hope they turn a blind eye or don't notice the change in emissions so I can get it over with and fixed at the workshop...and I don't know how much of a blow to my wallet it will be this time.
Could be as simple as swapping out the plugs, or it could be a problem with my injector. I just hope the cylinder doesn't rack up more damage in the meantime it takes to drive it to the inspection center, and then to the work shop.
In the span of a single year despite enjoying the shit out of my dream bike, the rectifier blew out, costing me SGD 300 to replace. One day as I was heading home from work, I turned the bike on only to hear nothing from the fuel pump and almost panicked, until it suddenly came on by itself after turning it on and off a few times.
Now all of a sudden as I was heading home from work yesterday, I hear the engine sounding a bit different, almost like a triple. I had basically no acceleration anymore, and the bike vibrated a bit more than usual.
I got home and did the water spray test on the headers. True enough, one header wasn't drying as fast as the others.
God damn I'm pissed. Because I have an annual inspection to send it in this coming Saturday. I just hope they turn a blind eye or don't notice the change in emissions so I can get it over with and fixed at the workshop...and I don't know how much of a blow to my wallet it will be this time.
Could be as simple as swapping out the plugs, or it could be a problem with my injector. I just hope the cylinder doesn't rack up more damage in the meantime it takes to drive it to the inspection center, and then to the work shop.