bike abruptly dies while riding?

[Slantyface]

So I was taking my cb550 on her maiden voyage this evening and on my way back to my house I ran into something strange. I was coming down my street and the bike died. Like not dimming lights and running rough died. Like, boom' your bike is shut off. No lights, no nothing. Luckily I was close to my house after coasting a bit. I pulled off to the side of the road and switched the ignition off, and then immediately back on. It acted like nothing had ever happened. Lights came right back up, hit the starter and she fired up immediately with no hesitation. So I pulled into my garage and checked the battery to find like 13 volts. My suspicion is that the aftermarket keyed ignition switch might have jiggled just the right way and lost connection? That's the only thing I can think of. Anybody else have any ideas?
Thanks all.
-James

 

[DetroitStyle]

I'm a noob, but I'd start by trying to replicate the situation in your garage. Start it up and jiggle a few things. See if you can get it to cut out again and go from there.

 

[Flugtechnik]

bike abruptly dies while riding?

When the same thing happened to me it was a bad fuse holder.


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[Slantyface]

Those are a couple good ideas. Ill jiggle some stuff tomorrow and see if I can't get it to die again.
Thanks guys

 

[AlphaDogChoppers]

Give your fusebox a really good examination. I don't know what the fusebox looks like on that particular bike, but a lot of cb's have a really horrible fuse box that connection bars inside can push out of place when you plug a connector into them. The result is a poor connection that heats up and melts things.

 

[SONICJK]

bike abruptly dies while riding?

When the same thing happened to me it was a bad fuse holder.


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This.
I replaced mine with a blade fuse holder.
It sucks in the daytime when it cuts out like that, but at night on a curvy road it's a death sentence.
Get it fixed before you do any night rides.

 

[Maritime]

Also, check your main fuse, if it is the metal strip inside the plastic case, those can split and loose contact, they look 100% fine but crack right at the spot they screw in and hit the right bump and connection fails, pull over go WTF? then try your key etc and they work again. My GL had that and a quick trip to the auto store and a 30 amp blade fuse and holder fixed that for good. This was the first thing I changed out on the CX I am working on now too. It still had the back up filiment too.

 

[Slantyface]

This is good stuff guys. I actually have an 8 blade holder that I just haven't installed yet. And yeah, the bike died last night. I was riding along like, fine...fine...fine...blackout and everything was silent but the wind noise...Scary stuff.