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Demon Rider
10-05-2008, 11:55 AM
Last night after I replaced the bearings in the rear end of my bike I took her out for a spin and then my buddy wanted to go for a minute. So after the comment "for god sakes keep her on all 4s" I let him go. After about 20 seconds I look over and my Outlaw is on her side:( . This is the first time my bike has ever been laid down. Somehow I have managed not to flip a bike up to this point in my life. Anyway somehow I didn't flip out and kill him. We put her back up on her wheels but since it was dark out I couldn't really see what was and wasn't damaged. I did notice my clutch lever was cracked off and bent it. No biggie there really, it is to be expected after a rollover, but also the headlights wouldn't turn on nor would my neutral light and the starter wouldn't work. We pushed her back to my shed (thank god we were close) and sized up the situation. Somehow the plastic didn't brake, just scuffed a little where it rubbed on the dirt. After I jiggled with the unit that holds the killswitch/headlight/starter buttons my neutral light came on and I was able to start her but she shut off in about 2 seconds. That unit did take some of the impact so I think it may have frigged up the ground wire and now whenever that unit moves I think she looses her ground and the kill switch activates. Is this possible and would she be able to get enough ground to use the starter and still have nothing come from the headlights? Please Help

yfzgirl
10-09-2008, 10:59 PM
Looks like you might need a new CDI box since your friend knocked it out of place or you might need to repair a few wires.It sounds like the main wire is split or like I said knocked out of place.(?) Why would you let somebody so careless mess around with your bike ? I don't get it! You sound like you take good care of your stuff & your over protective with the things you worked hard for.There's one I gotta tell you, never let anyone touch your ride especially if their not gonna respect your ride like you do!I hope everything works out right for you.:) .

Demon Rider
10-16-2008, 04:08 PM
Yeah............Completely my bad on that one. Anyway since i'm going to school now I live in the city and only make it out home maybe once a week so after doing my brief look over I had to give up and go back to the city. When I went back out last weekend, she started by some stoke of luck and I took her to my local dealer, where I know the mechanic pretty well at this point. He looked at the wires and decided that they weren't hurt and gave me a new headlight/kill/ignition switch. Got to love them freebies:D . After an hour, curse words and a few beer I finished the swap and the bike seems to be working perfectly. Just waiting on my new clutch handle to show up now and once that swap is made no one should really know the difference.