Neutral Light Flashing
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Neutral Light Flashing
On the ride home today, I noticed while I was sitting in lovely CT traffic that when I was stopped at idle my Neutral indicator light was flashing with the vibration of the bike, like intermittent contact on the sensor. Not having anything else to do, I played around a little bit - if I increased throttle but with full clutch pull it seemed to stop as the vibration smoothed out, but when I went back down to idle as the bike started to vibrate more so did the Neutral indicator start to flash.
The other really weird thing was that once the trafgfic broke, as I was driving, I noticed the Neutral indicator was also flashing as I switched gears, in between gears. I am used to between 1st and 2nd, but not between anything else and anything else - 2nd -> 3rd and all the way up. Not so much down, but I caught it a couple of times. Bike seems to run fine and doesn't seem to be the tranny slipping into Neutral, just a switch or relay that has contact problems.
As I said, I was sitting in traffic for about 20 minutes, and the bike got HOT - like riduculously so. Wondering if maybe that has anything to do with it and if anyone else has had similar problems? I called the dealer, the bimbo there told me they can't take it in until a week and a half. Wife and I are planning on dropping off our daughter and riding around Eastern Long Island this weekend, so that ain't gonna cut it. Hoping this is just a heat thing and no big deal.
Thanks,
Sean
The other really weird thing was that once the trafgfic broke, as I was driving, I noticed the Neutral indicator was also flashing as I switched gears, in between gears. I am used to between 1st and 2nd, but not between anything else and anything else - 2nd -> 3rd and all the way up. Not so much down, but I caught it a couple of times. Bike seems to run fine and doesn't seem to be the tranny slipping into Neutral, just a switch or relay that has contact problems.
As I said, I was sitting in traffic for about 20 minutes, and the bike got HOT - like riduculously so. Wondering if maybe that has anything to do with it and if anyone else has had similar problems? I called the dealer, the bimbo there told me they can't take it in until a week and a half. Wife and I are planning on dropping off our daughter and riding around Eastern Long Island this weekend, so that ain't gonna cut it. Hoping this is just a heat thing and no big deal.
Thanks,
Sean
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RE: Neutral Light Flashing
Mine did that the first day I got her from the dealer. It started doin that when she got real warm in traffic coupled with breaking in. I asked the dealer about it later that day, and the service dept guy would only talk about how its an air cooled bike and its gonna get hot etc. Missed my entire question grrr. Not sure of the exact type of switch used for neutral indicator, but guessing the traffic and the heat build up from it causes some thermal expansion inside, and trips the light on just barely. Hasnt done it to me since then.
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RE: Neutral Light Flashing
It must be heat related - I let the bike sit outside for 2 hours, then went out and ran it at idle for 10-15 minutes, nothing flickering. It is dark here, so it is a little cooler than it was on the ride home. I managed to get an appt at another dealer for tomorrow morning, so I will see what they say and let everyone know.
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