Sports: Re: [DucatiST] "The Italian bike starts....

Haha, good one. Maybe from now on when we see a Japanese bike we should immediately ask,
"Had any electrical problems". ;) (maybe I won't, I thought I almost had a no start sunday....)

Robert McNabb
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From: st ryder <st3ryder@yahoo.com>
To: "st2_owners@yahoogroups.com" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:12 AM
Subject: [DucatiST] "The Italian bike starts....

...the Japanese one doesn't." :-)

I couldn't help myself from uttering those words to an incredulous rider at the "local" rider hang-out yesterday when out riding with a couple of friends on Japanese meteric crusiers...you know...the bullet-proof, reliable ones.

We had a nice breakfast and went to restart our ride, only my buddy's Suzuki, wouldn't start...battery was barely clicking the solenoid. Bike started okay for him all morning so he was not amused to say the least, but being surrounded by a herd of experienced riders, he was not in dire straits.

Having heard diferent things about bump starting EFI bikes, I thought I might first park as closely as I could along side him to see if the lengths of 10 gage cables I have attached to my battery for charging might reach the terminals on his to charge his up a little, but it was a no-go. By this time several intersted-in-helping riders had gatherered around, and one looked at me while pointing to my bike and said, "What, she won't start?"

So, I had to say it, "The Italian bike starts, the Japanese one doesn't" in order to enlighten him and the others who had gathered around a little bit. :-) Scheez, when will the perception of Ducati unreliablity ever end? He *automatically* thought the red bike was having the problems. :-)

Oh, the EFI Suzuki bump started very easliy with the help of several other riders pushing it. :-) His battery is probably on its way out, but who knows? Could be a electrical problem...Japanese bikes are famous for them, LOL... ;-)

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