about a month ago my bike got rained on and for some reason, i guess some water got on some wires or something and it wasn't running for a few days... Anyway... so now its running. I never took it to a shop cause i figured it was good but Lately its been acting weird though... my speedometer will quit working randomly or an error light will come on but go off as soon as i turn the bike off and start it again and the most recent malfunction... my headlights wont work... low or high beam. I got a ticket for this and i know i can get out of it but i need to figure out how i can fix this problem without dropping $300 or more. This bike is my main source of transportation since my car accident... even in 21 degree weather. Any ideas will be appreciated.

 

What are you trying to fix?The ticket or the bike?
I would figure out what code it is throwing first.

 

confuscious say, slow the f*&% down, probably poor grounding

 

Does anything else cut out in the cluster, or JUST the speedometer?

 

oh thats a fix it ticket, you can plead not guilty if you fix it and show a recipt or you can take it to a shop and ask for an inspection and as long as it passed all points then it should be droped right away with the passed paperwork

 

I don't know about NY, but I know in IL if you tell a cop you were speeding because your speedo is broken, you get a ticket for speeding, AND a ticket for operating a non-compliant vehicle. Giving the judge a receipt for the after-the-fact repair just pisses him off, because he asks if you were in compliance at the time of the ticket, and you have to say no, so he says "then you're guilty." Had it happen to me for a freakin' license plate light.

 

You could always hard wire the lights with an inline fuse and switch. This would not be my end all fix. This way you could spend you money on getting out of the ticket, have transportation, and have time to find the root problem and fix it correctly. Iam not sure how this would affect the charging system, if at all.