Electrical Diagnostics..
Well... I KNEW I shouldn't have listened to anyone.. and just ignored the problem... because... what turned out to be just a MILDLY annoying problem... has suddenly turned into THE END OF THE WORLD.. or just abouts!!
I inspected all the wiring when I noticed what seemed to be a crack in the plastic under the seat.
Turns out - the ENTIRE SUB FRAME has snapped off... and I was basically sitting on a seat, with underseat exhausts, that was hanging off a single bolt and a bit of metal as thin as.. well very thin!!!!
Although my first instinct was to sob uncontrollably and run away (I did the first, not the second).. I have managed to take everything apart and the sub frame will hopefully be welded on Monday...
HOWEVER --- I discovered (with the whole bike in bits) some peculiar things:
LOTS OF WIRES, seemingly going NOWHERE.
IS THIS NORMAL??
Do the manufacturers maybe just use ONE WIRING setup for several types of bikes... and if it doesn't need the wires, it just LEAVES IT DANGLING??
I have taken some pictures, to show you -- in case it looks familiar:
PIC 1: Shows a 'chocolate block' type thingy with about 5 wires going INTO it... but its just dangling loose, and there's nothing to connect it to.
Also - another GREEN wire, with a proper connecting thingy on it (you know the sheathed connecters that slide into each other) ALSO going nowhere and I can't find a wire it connects to.
PIC 2: Shows a wire with a weird kind of rubber thingy on the end... almost like a plug.. and nothing it connects to.. just hanging there.
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