Yagi is making me wary again

I went for a short ride after a day of doing nothing at the campsite but listening to a book and relaxing.

I had read my destination, a group campsite about 3 miles from my camp.  Yagi, my TW200 however chose that moment to have the engine die forcing me to coast the final few feet to the entrance.  Yogi would not start again, despite several attempts and some checking of the usual suspects. She was acting like the time when I had damaged wiring to the stator causing problems. 

Some deep sign and cursing later, I started pushing her back towards camp along Arivaca Road.  There was one steep hill, at Lisa was steeped to me, before I got to the entrance to Morris Road 227.  Huffing and puffing I pushed Yogi past the entrance and stuff for a rest.  I know where my decided to try the starter again, she cranked and cranked and I was about to give up when the engine caught! 

Of course she started working after the hill not before the hill, that would have been too easy. 

I rode back to camp with no further issues and spent the rest of the afternoon troubleshooting things. Found some wiring that needed repairing but that was not related to the problem. They're appears to be, though I can't replicate it reliably, a loose connection on one other wires leading to the stator. It would sometimes cut out the engine when jostled it and sometimes it didn't.

Anyways, button things up went on a couple of short test rides in case I had to push the motorcycle back and there were no issues. Did multiple stop starts, no issues. More testing to follow. But again, there's trust issues between me and Yagi.

More rigs have shown up for weekend but still at least .3 miles away 

High Temp: 85°F

Saturday, February 28

High Temp: 87°F

Spent the morning cleaning up the battery terminals and doing some rewiring because previous efforts had proven not long lasting, shall we say.  

Just before 3:00 in the afternoon, I went out for what turned out to be a 15.2 mi test ride that involve both dirt and pavement, and Yagi did fine.  I think for the short-term I will be riding only on roads that the VRRV can negotiate to recover Yagi in case she does another outage on me.

Sunday, March 01

Woke up this morning to the news of the US / Israel attacks on Iran. Spent the day basically looking at the news to see what was going on. I did get a couple more test rides in with Yagi, she seems to be back to her old self.

High Temp: 89°F