Dies while riding?

[Terminater]

Riding along while coming up to a stop sign bike started shutting down, and then completely died. Speedo/tech start moving all over the place. Pulled to the side of road popped seat checked battery cables, and also check the ground to the engine. Also check power cable to starter, and all seem ok.
Turn the key on, and turned the kill switch on. Hit the start, and it fired up. It had the service engine light on but seem to be running fine. We were like 50 miles from home. So off we went taking the back country roads. Thought if thing went bad on back road we could ditch load it in a truck.
Well got 10 miles from home, and it started popping/dieing again. Pulled to the side of the road. Bike was completely dead. Inspected things again. Thought turn the key back on, and click the kill switch back on to I could try to restart. It restarted again like nothing was wrong. It even cleared the trouble light.
Finally got it home. Put it up on the lift. Hooked the laptop up, and it did not have any fault codes. Also took all battery connection off to inspect. Took the engine ground off, and starter cable off to inspect. All seemed good. But my Acid Reflux disorder was raising hell.
Thoughts are it is the ignition switch, or the kill switch.
Any advice on how to rule this stuff out?

 

[tdragger]

I had this happen once before when I didn't close the fuel cap just right. I don't know if the vent was blocked or whether the vent was stuck wide open, but the bike would die at low revs only after running for several minutes. It it sat for a few minutes, it would start up and run fine. Then about 10 minutes later it would act like fuel starvation and die.

I simply opened the fuel cap and closed it again and it is never had the problem again.

worth a try.

 

[GPMAZ]

Whew!! When I read the title of the thread I expected something much worse.

 

[skydog1000]

Sure sounds like ignition switch mine would die at 2mph or 70mph. Put new ignition switch and easter beaver switch and fixed the problem.

 

[Dennsell]

Whew!! When I read the title of the thread I expected something much worse.

Me Too....

 

[Dennsell]

Some connection checking is in order I think Mr T'

Maybe some Ign switch cable wiggling and Gently pulling to replicate while motor is running.
Or
Ignition switch cable multiplug its near the throttle cable/ throttle body area under the tank,, maybe cleaning and dielectic grease..

Has it been stored or wet maybe plug pin corrosion.

I would opt for the IGN SW first ... JM2CW

 

[bigdoug]

I had a similar thing and it was the 7 core multi plug under the tank, it was warm to the touch and I could see heat damage on one of the cores. It was cut out and the cables soldered together.

 

[warp9.9]

Riding along while coming up to a stop sign bike started shutting down, and then completely died. Speedo/tech start moving all over the place. Pulled to the side of road popped seat checked battery cables, and also check the ground to the engine. Also check power cable to starter, and all seem ok.
Turn the key on, and turned the kill switch on. Hit the start, and it fired up. It had the service engine light on but seem to be running fine. We were like 50 miles from home. So off we went taking the back country roads. Thought if thing went bad on back road we could ditch load it in a truck.
Well got 10 miles from home, and it started popping/dieing again. Pulled to the side of the road. Bike was completely dead. Inspected things again. Thought turn the key back on, and click the kill switch back on to I could try to restart. It restarted again like nothing was wrong. It even cleared the trouble light.
Finally got it home. Put it up on the lift. Hooked the laptop up, and it did not have any fault codes. Also took all battery connection off to inspect. Took the engine ground off, and starter cable off to inspect. All seemed good. But my Acid Reflux disorder was raising hell.
Thoughts are it is the ignition switch, or the kill switch.
Any advice on how to rule this stuff out?

may I ask what year and model is the bike?

 

[ponters]

Sounds similar to problem I was having until I replaced my tps

 

[CanberraR3]

My money's on the 7 core multi plug connector under the tank with the ignition wires. Pull it and check for heat damage, give a good clean on grease it. I bet if you wiggle it a bit you'll replicate the problem. Mine seems OK for now (again) but I'm close to doing what bigdoug did if it happens again. For now I have a cable tie attached to the wires and poking out from under the tank so I can give it a tug if it happens again without lifting the tank. Got me out of trouble once while on the go not long ago.