So I just bought a 2007 Kawasaki Ninja ZZR600....Sorry, I wanted to buy a Honda CBR but I couldn't pass up this deal. I bought it for $4,200 with only 955 miles on it. It was a good deal that I couldn't pass up! But the only problem was that the owner had 3 bikes. 1 was his, another was his wifes and Kawasaki Ninja ZZR600 that he is selling. So the ZZR pretty much just sat in the garage and collected dust and the battery died. So I bought a battery for the bike, threw it in and it ran perfectly.

I was riding for a couple of days and it ran smoothly, no problem at all and than I started losing power and my battery cut off. I had to pull into a parking lot and it would not crank. I tried to crank it back up and the battery pretty much died cause the lights didn't even come on.

So I went to Autozone and the guy told me that I had to charge the battery before I put it in because it wasn't charged. But I didn't understand why I needed to charge a NEW battery. So I bought a battery charger and charged it up. Than threw it in and it ran smoothly again, no problems at all. Than a day or two later it starts doing the samething and it cut off on me when I was on the highway! I was sooo scared but luckly I got it cranked back up and made it home safely.

My question is, what would make the bike cut off in the middle of me riding???

Would it be I just have a bad battery or is it something electrically wrong with my bike???

I don't think the oil is a reason but I do need to get an oil change ASAP but that wouldn't make the bike cut off though.

I don't know why it is cutting off while I am riding....SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP, I AM SO CONFUSED!!!

Thank You!

 

Not quite the place (us being CBRs) and all. But general mechanics say that if your battery keeps running dead when driving / riding, it's not being charged. Aka, you have a problem with the alternator.

Your bike isn't generating power while running. So it's using the battery's charge to keep spark going. But that's finite energy. The battery dies -> you don't have the power to generate a spark -> the engine dies

 

I would check the terminal connections. I had this happen to me before as well, bike would just cut out while driving--turned out to be a loose connection

 

Your bike has a notoriously crappy R\R, and this is a textbook R\R failure symptom. Pull off yoru tail fairing and see if your R\R is physically melted. If not, test the voltages at idle and 5k. I bet it's bad. if so, it most likely took your battery down with it.

Check the sticky in the F2 section for an awesome R\R troubleshooting writeup.