Adam
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- 2005 Triumph Rocket 3
Hi All,
This ignition switch forum brought me here. Just bought a 2005 R3 in February 2015, now its broke...ignition switch problem?
I was just getting her out for a ride yesterday after being garaged for a month and half while I was away overseas for work. Started fine, but then kept cutting out when I tried to drive. After messing around I noticed power was going on and off while moving the handle bars. I also noted from the time I bought it the handle bar lock didn't work and couldn't get the mechanism to push in or turn it to the parking mode... at the time I din't really care about this. Only now it drew my attention that something maybe going on there. So I see that similar symptoms were posted here. I wanted to find out more on the fix and what this Eastern Beaver H4 wire harness thing is all about? Why was that a fix? It wasn't well explained in the threads.
I want this to be a good bike! I rode a 1983 Honda Magna V65 for 10 years; it had so issues of its own, but this is kind of ridiculous for a bike I just bought from a dealer. I paid $2,000 for a v65 that rode strong and hard for 10 years. Here I am thinking I upgraded to Triumph paid $6,500 and there it sits broke as the other.
Thank you!
Adam
This ignition switch forum brought me here. Just bought a 2005 R3 in February 2015, now its broke...ignition switch problem?
I was just getting her out for a ride yesterday after being garaged for a month and half while I was away overseas for work. Started fine, but then kept cutting out when I tried to drive. After messing around I noticed power was going on and off while moving the handle bars. I also noted from the time I bought it the handle bar lock didn't work and couldn't get the mechanism to push in or turn it to the parking mode... at the time I din't really care about this. Only now it drew my attention that something maybe going on there. So I see that similar symptoms were posted here. I wanted to find out more on the fix and what this Eastern Beaver H4 wire harness thing is all about? Why was that a fix? It wasn't well explained in the threads.
I want this to be a good bike! I rode a 1983 Honda Magna V65 for 10 years; it had so issues of its own, but this is kind of ridiculous for a bike I just bought from a dealer. I paid $2,000 for a v65 that rode strong and hard for 10 years. Here I am thinking I upgraded to Triumph paid $6,500 and there it sits broke as the other.
Thank you!
Adam