My bike is parked on the street, at a place where quite a few people walk on the sidewalk. Also since there is free parking here (just outside of city center) but way more cars than spots, the cars park on the sidewalk every so often. Result is, that there is barely any space for people to walk and often I find them bumping into my bike, adjusting my mirrors for me. Hate it, but I don't have any other place to put it.
Last week I took the XS to work again. At the last half mile, it ran like crap. Probably on one cylinder, it didn't want to go ANYwhere. So I took my bicycle to work the rest of the week.
Today I thought I'd give it a try again. So this morning I re-adjusted my left mirror and tried starting the bike. Nothing. Not even a click from the starter, although my light was burning strongly. I know when it's the battery, my neutral light doesn't shine so bright (nice rhyme, eh?). So I'm confused, and try pushing the bike in 2. Nothing either. I come really close to going back inside to take off my gear and grab my bicycle, and i realize it's that f-ing killswitch
So I start it OK and ride off. After about half a mile, it stalls. I can't get it to come back to life, I only manage to get it to fire once in a while. I curse the bike to hell and then think: what if... I don't have enough fuel.....? So I turn to RES and bam! there it goes...
probably the cause for it running poorly last week as well