Re: Electrical / battery problem?

[Don MacQueen <dmac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Berto wrote:

> When I went out for a ride this weekend I noticed that my tach 
> wasn't working when I was sitting at a light, and also the neutral 
> light wasn't on and the battery light was lit up.  ...  After a 
> while I noticed that it was when I grabbed my front brake lever that 
> the tach would die and the battery light would come on.
<snip>

Check your fuses.  IIRC, I had the same thing happen when I had the 
bright idea of pulling the fuse to disable the brake light at a 
trackday.  If that's not it, my guess would be your alternator is 
giving up the ghost.
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