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Originally posted by RichLees:
Mark Crook's starter started to screech so he dismantled it and removed carbon bits ...
carry a spare battery or starter - you must be nuts
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I've taken the 2000 starter off my bike for a good service before departure, and fitted a 1989 Dominator item. The bike it came off had 69,000 miles on it (I think). It still works perfectly. They aren't complicated, or unreliable.
You might be right about the battery idea - although the XRL only has a small one, it may be a couple of kilos too far.... we'll see. I can bump my bike with full luggage on a grassy field and on a gravel road, so only deep sand would prove to be a problem.
As soon as I leave Europe I'm also planning to remove the headlight bulb to give the charging system a bit more leeway. With the toys (lights, laptop charger, IMO and GPS) it runs at about 13.4v at 3000 rpm. Not bad, but not great either.
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