MZ5
Well-Known Member
Thanks for posting this, treybrad. I'm experiencing exactly the same thing with my NCX lately. This morning's start was the most recent example. I'm accustomed to the bike starting after a specific duration of cranking sounds, but sometimes it takes 3 times that long, or sometimes it just doesn't start until I release the button, pause, and try again. Once it took two pause-and-re-try cycles, though the duration of each start attempt was very short that time. It's been doing this on an unpredictable schedule for weeks for me, as well.
My area is like yours in that it will be unusual for us to get below 70F again at any time before fall. I do not have a voltmeter on my bike, but I'm starting to think I should. Phoenix (where I work) tied the record yesterday at 110F, and it's supposed to be about the same temp all week and weekend. I have AMA help available, but I do NOT want to be sitting on the freeway, frying, waiting for them to show if the bike quits. Even if the battery's shot, I don't _believe_ the bike will die outright while cruising down the freeway, but I don't know for sure.
BTW, I experienced my best-ever mpg over this past weekend on a ride with Dad through some very high (and relatively cool) country. I was well into the low 80s, whereas I'm normally at 71 - 75 mpg pretty much all the time. It did the slow-start thing once during the ride, but that was down low in the warm area, not up high in the cool.
My area is like yours in that it will be unusual for us to get below 70F again at any time before fall. I do not have a voltmeter on my bike, but I'm starting to think I should. Phoenix (where I work) tied the record yesterday at 110F, and it's supposed to be about the same temp all week and weekend. I have AMA help available, but I do NOT want to be sitting on the freeway, frying, waiting for them to show if the bike quits. Even if the battery's shot, I don't _believe_ the bike will die outright while cruising down the freeway, but I don't know for sure.
BTW, I experienced my best-ever mpg over this past weekend on a ride with Dad through some very high (and relatively cool) country. I was well into the low 80s, whereas I'm normally at 71 - 75 mpg pretty much all the time. It did the slow-start thing once during the ride, but that was down low in the warm area, not up high in the cool.