A couple of weekends ago I was on a 3 day moto trip to Sequoia national park. It was a great trip, with beautiful scenery and roads but...I layed the Z down. I chalk it up to several different factors...a worn tire, uneven pavement, fatigue, and trying to beat the sunset to our destination for the night. Coming around a corner at about 35-40 I hit some uneven pavement and the back tire started to slide out. I tried to adjust by braking, which stood the bike up and stopped the slide, but moved her out to the edge of the turn where there was a nice patch of gravel waiting for me. As soon as my tires hit the gravel it was over. I think I had slowed to about 25 mph by the time I had laid the bike down and had good gear on so I only came away with some scuffed leathers, bruised knees (knee protection is now on my shopping list), and a bruised ego. The bike ended up face down in a ditch and shut herself off. My buddy and I were able to push it out of the ditch and after an examination determined that the damage seemed to be cosmetic - a lot of scratches, a broken mirror and a dented tank, but she wouldn't start. I had made it through the accident with a firm warning from the powers that be.
While trying to decide if it was time to call AAA to tow her to the closest town we started thinking that the bike may have a safety shutoff mechanism and that if we disconnected the battery and reconnected it we might reset whatever was going on (hey, we were shooting blind in the dark and trying to get home.) While I had the seat off before disconnecting the battery I checked the ignition fuse. It was blown, swapped it with the spare, and the bike started right up. I road it to the hotel that night and road a couple hundred miles home the next day without any problems. I'm setting out tomorrow morning to fix up some of the cosmetic damage. My question to the group is...do you think I have an abnormal short I need to search for or did Kawasaki build in a safety mechanism to blow a fuse and shut the bike down if the bike is layed down. (I don't see why they would build it to blow a fuse but I guess I'm hoping that it isn't something worse.)
Thanks for your input.
While trying to decide if it was time to call AAA to tow her to the closest town we started thinking that the bike may have a safety shutoff mechanism and that if we disconnected the battery and reconnected it we might reset whatever was going on (hey, we were shooting blind in the dark and trying to get home.) While I had the seat off before disconnecting the battery I checked the ignition fuse. It was blown, swapped it with the spare, and the bike started right up. I road it to the hotel that night and road a couple hundred miles home the next day without any problems. I'm setting out tomorrow morning to fix up some of the cosmetic damage. My question to the group is...do you think I have an abnormal short I need to search for or did Kawasaki build in a safety mechanism to blow a fuse and shut the bike down if the bike is layed down. (I don't see why they would build it to blow a fuse but I guess I'm hoping that it isn't something worse.)
Thanks for your input.
