UselessPickles
Making Grand Canyon replicas from air boxes...
I washed my bike this weekend, then took it for the obligatory ride to warm it up and dry out all the nooks and crannies. While cruising down the freeway, the bike suddenly accelerated by itself. My cruise control's control panel shows that it's off, but I quickly hit the off button and it stops. I then try to turn the cruise on, but it won't work. The button back-lights were on, but the power indicator wouldn't come on. Then it did it again! Several more times again. So I headed back home with my thumb hovering over the cruise control's "off" button, ready for the evil spirit that had possessed my bike to strike again at any time. Luckily, this only ever happened at freeway speeds; not when driving around on surface streets with traffic, intersections, low-speed corners and traffic lights.
I pull into my quiet neighborhood around 9:30-10:00 pm. Just as I'm approaching my house, my dual FIAMM freeway blaster horns become possessed and start blaring! But it doesn't stop there. As I pull into my driveway, the garage door opened on its own too!
The garage door mystery was the first to be solved. My wife heard me pull into the driveway with the horns blaring and thought I wanted her to open the door for me :lol:
As for the cruise control and the horns, I think the controls on the handlebar received a direct hit from the "jet" setting on my garden hose nozzle. My cruise control button pad had been sealed with silicone adhesive and had withstood the test of a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain and 60mph winds, but I guess it's no match for the mighty garden hose. I've always known that pressure washing a motorcycle was a bad idea, but I never knew the pressure from a garden hose could cause problems.
The horn button seems to have dried out overnight, but the cruise control pad didn't because of all the silicone adhesive. I had a fun time breaking that seal and taking the control pad apart so I could dry it, but it works good as new now. I'll be sealing it again soon to keep it protected from normal wet conditions, but I'll be a lot more careful with the hose from now on.
I pull into my quiet neighborhood around 9:30-10:00 pm. Just as I'm approaching my house, my dual FIAMM freeway blaster horns become possessed and start blaring! But it doesn't stop there. As I pull into my driveway, the garage door opened on its own too!
The garage door mystery was the first to be solved. My wife heard me pull into the driveway with the horns blaring and thought I wanted her to open the door for me :lol:
As for the cruise control and the horns, I think the controls on the handlebar received a direct hit from the "jet" setting on my garden hose nozzle. My cruise control button pad had been sealed with silicone adhesive and had withstood the test of a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain and 60mph winds, but I guess it's no match for the mighty garden hose. I've always known that pressure washing a motorcycle was a bad idea, but I never knew the pressure from a garden hose could cause problems.
The horn button seems to have dried out overnight, but the cruise control pad didn't because of all the silicone adhesive. I had a fun time breaking that seal and taking the control pad apart so I could dry it, but it works good as new now. I'll be sealing it again soon to keep it protected from normal wet conditions, but I'll be a lot more careful with the hose from now on.
