Well, this is a good one.  I took off my motorcycle seat to fix a small tear in it and my young nephew thought he'd be helpful. He washed my motorcycle with the seat off...spraying water all over the electrical wires!  Great!  LOL!   Got to love kids!

Of course, I wiped everything down but now it just makes a clicking sound.   I've got the battery on a charger and hoping in a few days, it'll just dry out.  I'm guessing water got in somewhere but not sure.

What do you guys think?

verslagen1 wrote on 08/04/15 at 20:34:57:


Yea, I checked the air box and there was water in there.   I can wait a while for it to dry out.  We've been getting a lot of rain here in Ohio, so haven't been able to ride much.  

On the plus size, my motorcycle looks nice!  

How old is he?

If you have one and haven't already, a leaf blower is good to blow water out of the nooks and crannies that could be sitting in there that you can't see.  As you have probably read, when we wash our bikes (under known circumstances  ) we will take the leaf blower to it immediately after and then run it for about 10 minutes to dry up any remaining water we can't see. Unfortunately in your case you can't get it running to do part2, but you definitely want to blow out any water that may be hanging around.  But, if it's as hot there as it is in central Alabama, any water on the bike anywhere would be scorched out by the heat of the sun in 5 minutes.

On a side note, I hope you weren't too hard on the nephew. Good to see the kid taking some initiative versus the world full of lazy entitlement idiots we have raising more entitlement idiots.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/04/15 at 21:42:15:


He is 9.   I didn't yell at him or anything.  He didn't know any better and was just trying to help.

stewmills wrote on 08/05/15 at 06:48:05:



Yeah, he's a good kid.  He's 9 yrs old and we've been watching him every weekend for the past couple of years since his Mother...well, isn't the best Mother around.  So, he feels like we are more his parents and he LOVES my motorcycle.    He was just trying to help.  So, can't be mad about that!  

Leaf blower did the trick.  5 minutes and it started right up!   I took her for an hour long ride too.   Thanks again for the suggestions all!  

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/05/15 at 19:26:06:


Yeah, we've been working with him and teaching him what we consider good values.  He's come a long way.   I'm not the greatest mechanic but I show him what little I know but teach him more about just being a good person and having integrity. ethics, etc.  We don't have kids of our own and my Mom has seen me with him and gave me a nice compliment.  She said if we'd have had kids, I would have made a good Father.   Nice to hear that from her but it's even nicer to see our nephew learning from us and I think he'll be OK and become a good man and member of society.  I often will ask him for help on things and have him think it out.  Kids are amazing at how their brains work!