nev
Super Térrarist
Time to say goodbye to winter, and what better way of getting accustomed to the warmer weather than a ride to Qld to acclimatize.
We have a few weeks off work, so we put a bit of planning into a trip, and by a bit I mean Jo said "lets ride up to Qld" and i said "hmm.. haven't been to Broken Hill for a while".
Friday morning we were packed and set off up the Calder heading to Wentworth for the night. At about Kyneton Jo tells me over the intercom that her bike has an engine warning on the dash. Stop the bike, turn it off and on again, the warning goes away. Keep riding. 5 minutes later "the warning light is back on and the bike is misfiring occasionally". Call the BMW dealer "Is there anything we can do to diagnose this aside from plugging it into the BMW dealer equipment?" "No." So we turn around and ride back into Southbank. We got some breakfast while the techs at Southbank BMW plugged it in and pushed some buttons. They were quite busy and no time to do anything for us today aside from basic diagnosis. "the No 2 injector is throwing the error. Hard to say what it is exactly without doing further tests".
Jo said the fault hadn't Armed with RACV Total Care, we set off again but our plans had changed. I wasn't really keen on taking a bike with a potential terminal fault out into the wilderness, so I decided that we would take a more direct route north. After about an hour riding I decided Jerilderie would be our first night's stop. Jo said the bike had misfired a few times but not in the last 150km or so. Hopefully it may have just been fuel related and we had now refuelled twice more.
Flooded bushland on the Murray River between Koonoomoo and Tocumwal
We have a few weeks off work, so we put a bit of planning into a trip, and by a bit I mean Jo said "lets ride up to Qld" and i said "hmm.. haven't been to Broken Hill for a while".
Friday morning we were packed and set off up the Calder heading to Wentworth for the night. At about Kyneton Jo tells me over the intercom that her bike has an engine warning on the dash. Stop the bike, turn it off and on again, the warning goes away. Keep riding. 5 minutes later "the warning light is back on and the bike is misfiring occasionally". Call the BMW dealer "Is there anything we can do to diagnose this aside from plugging it into the BMW dealer equipment?" "No." So we turn around and ride back into Southbank. We got some breakfast while the techs at Southbank BMW plugged it in and pushed some buttons. They were quite busy and no time to do anything for us today aside from basic diagnosis. "the No 2 injector is throwing the error. Hard to say what it is exactly without doing further tests".
Jo said the fault hadn't Armed with RACV Total Care, we set off again but our plans had changed. I wasn't really keen on taking a bike with a potential terminal fault out into the wilderness, so I decided that we would take a more direct route north. After about an hour riding I decided Jerilderie would be our first night's stop. Jo said the bike had misfired a few times but not in the last 150km or so. Hopefully it may have just been fuel related and we had now refuelled twice more.
Flooded bushland on the Murray River between Koonoomoo and Tocumwal