breva 11 startus interuptes

[john hooper]

Anybody suffer this irritating fault whe  after running fault free for ages you go to start the bike but touching the  button produces NOTHING, but later it will start no problem, here in europe it seems a common occurrence.

John

[Kev m]

Anybody suffer this irritating fault whe  after running fault free for ages you go to start the bike but touching the  button produces NOTHING, but later it will start no problem, here in europe it seems a common occurrence.

John

In the first few years of ownership before installing the simple and well documented fix as recommended by this website, sure. After that no.

[Doppelgaenger]

I've experienced it, sort of, about twice. A battery that was on the way out was the culprit for that one. So far it's the one Breva problem I haven't had to deal with.

[Mackers]

My '06 Breva has had this problem.  I've installed the

simple and well documented fix as recommended by this website

, regularly cleaned and tightened electrical leads and earths, pulled the starter motor, stripped and cleaned it, all to no apparent solution. 

Eventually, I found that the lead to the starter solenoid tab was very loose and flopped around.  Snipped it off and made a new one.  No problem for 12 months.

Then I started getting a "choonk" from the starter and no start.  I wired in a bypass starter button under the seat which I've used twice - bike goes "choonk" after the dash boots up, so I remove the seat and hit the bypass button.  Bike starts.  Plenty of electrickery.  Once I got the triangle of death on the screen - ignored it and it wasn't there when I restarted the bike normally after it warmed up.

I've just wired in another earth from the starter motor bolt to the battery.  Jury is still out on this.

Anyway, I love the bike and I've learned a lot!

[Kiwi_Roy]

It's a dead easy fix on the Breva, just run a fused feed from the battery to relay 3

Cut the yellow wire a couple of inches away from the relay, tape up the non relay end and feed the relay end
from a 20 Amp fuse with 14 gauge wire.
The fuse is fed from the battery + terminal.

All the logic remains the same

http://www.thisoldtractor.com/guzzi007/schematics/2005_Breva_1100.gif

[menzies]

What Kiwi Roy says, easy fix do-it-yourself or call MPH Cycle in Houston and buy their kit for cheap, easy plug and play.