Dies while riding?

[warp9.9]

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.

One of the plugs are changed out in the update kit and one set of wires is Isolated from the new plug and routed with its own seperate plug.
Still curious as to the year your beast was born might help me before I open my mouth and insert my feet. Which by the way makes it difficult to walk

 

[RKTNMYPKT]

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

Me Too!

 

[CanberraR3]

One of the plugs are changed out in the update kit and one set of wires is Isolated from the new plug and routed with its own seperate plug.
Still curious as to the year your beast was born might help me before I open my mouth and insert my feet. Which by the way makes it difficult to walk

Mine's an '09 and problem definitely in the plugs not connecting well. No sign of any damage, just sensitive to movement.

 

[TOMCAT]

Got mine back from the Dealer friday... multipule loose connections in the harness. Loose earth lead and power wire. Sorted now .. $240 later , took the tech two and half hours to track all the problems down.

 

[warp9.9]

Mine's an '09 and problem definitely in the plugs not connecting well. No sign of any damage, just sensitive to movement.

Sorry dude I meant what I was still curious as to what year terminators bike was.

 

[cadconversions]

2012 Roadster has done it several times. When it was new it happened several times and then stopped for a while but happened again just the other day. I can let the clutch out and it will fire right back up while still rolling.

 

[mcather]

Mine did this twice, as Kevin stated. I was on the highway going 60 mph, pulled in the clutch
to take an exit and the motor died. I let the clutch back out an it started running w/ no problems.

I have a 2013 R3T w/ 4100 miles. Maybe I should have the stealer look into it.

 

[Rocket65]

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?

I noticed that you are "turning on the kill switch" with each start. I don't think that is the problem but most motorcycle manufacturers don't recommend using the kill switch except for emergency cut off mostly.

 

[Boog]

@mcather Cat, it may be needing the TPS adjusted. Mine was that way when I bought the '14 new. Dealer fix it right away once they hooked it up to their computer.

 

[mcather]

@mcather Cat, it may be needing the TPS adjusted. Mine was that way when I bought the '14 new. Dealer fix it right away once they hooked it up to their computer.

Thanks bunches. I'll take to my dealer before my FAMILY vacation to see what they say.