I recently took my lovely KLE500 in for it's 4000 miles service (the clock said 5,780, but who's counting). After much drinking of capuccino's along Clapham high street, I returned to pick the bike up. No significant problems, but keep an eye on the front tyre tread (Avon Distanzias, 4000 miles old). As I pulled away, the bike started to struggle and eventually died on me. I restarted it and the same thing happened again. Out of petrol already I thought? Interesting... I virtually dragged the bike to the nearest garage and filled the tank up. It still had plenty in there. Now I was getting suspicious. I pulled away only for the problem to reoccur. Rather than pull it to pieces at the side of the road, I pushed it back to the dealership. At first they didn't believe me as the bike ticked over fine, so I insisted they took it for a run. 30 minutes later, I sighted the technician pushing it back.

Naturally, they looked perplexed, but offered to fix the fault and loan me a ER6n until mine was ready. Two weeks later, and they eventually had it fixed. After much headscratching, cleaning of carbs, fuel taps and airboxes and a long call to Kawasaki they gave me my bike back. All they did was change the fuel. Apparently, the fuel that was in the tank wouldn't ignite properly and was spitting back out through the airbox. Not something I have heard of before, but maybe the tank had become contaminated at some point.

Anyway, it's nice to have my bike back and get rid of that bloody ER6n. Nice road bike, but in southeast london, we don't have many of what you'd call roads...

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Current Bikes - Kawasaki KLE500 '05 (May 06)
Previous Bikes - Hyosung GF125 (Oct 05 to May 06)