New 1190RX died 3x on the way home
Hello everyone,
Issue: bike died 3 times on the ride home. clutch / gears engaging seems a bit rough and jerky at times.
I just bought an 1190RX black ([already own an 09 XB12R] seems to be the slow color from what I am reading around here), and to give some history on what I've been told about the bike. It was the demo from the dealer that they used for test rides, it had 539mi on it when I got to it. I spoke the a gentlemen that turned out the be the dealers son and he was the main rider of this bike and told me that after they uncrated the bike he personally put the first 300 miles on it and followed the breaking in limitations during that time, from speaking to this guy for a few hours off and on, I got a very good impression that he was honest in all, that as he seems like the type to follow those restrictions. However there were 7-8 people that test drove the bike and 4-5 of them were escorted by staff on their test rides. Of course the others they cannot account for what did to the bike but I'd like to believe that the bike wasn't mistreated too badly for its break in. The ride home was about 160mi ride through downtown Houston during traffic times so there was plenty of clutch working but while in the city, on the highway and at around 20-30 mph the bike just died on me while I had the clutch pulled in so of course I simply restarted the bike and carried on. The third time it died was in my driveway as I pulled to the garage door I went to kill it but the bike beat me to it, mostly I am worried that there may be an underlying issue going on that I am not aware of. Also while the dealer was preparing the bike for me to take they had an issue where the bike would get 4 errors once the bike stopped running, the errors were (i might be a little off) Aux power, rear 02, and its getting late so i forgot the other 2. But it was determined that the issue was the 5v signals were dropping slightly causing the alarms and that it would all return to normal once the bike was run and able to recharge itself. Which once I got home I did not get all 4 errors. However I receive a rear 02 sensor alarm while riding it home, hoping its a left over glitch. Also the other worry I have is that while I am driving at about 23-33 mph in 2nd gear the bike seems to engage and disengage the clutch kinda on its own causing the bike to randomly "jerk" back and forth while riding but I only get this while trying to maintain 23-33mph in second gear and it seems rather violent to me. The gear indicator seems to have a little bit of an issue telling me what gear I am in while driving too but not sure if its normal for it to do so or not. Hopefully I can get some insight from everyone here on what my issues may be, I am mostly worried cause I will be installing the race ECM and exhaust kit on monday once it arrives and I would hate to cause any possible additional damage. I hope to have some great with this beauty and even better track days. Perhaps I will see you Classax at MSRH since that is probably my favorite track (not that I go often lately). And another big thanks to AF1 Austin for answering my questions about EBR and the 1190RX, bigger thanks to Joe and everyone at Goe Kawasaki in Angleton for setting me up and getting me rolling.
I'll post some pics on the owners thread once all the modifications are done.
