Well this was a first for me. One minute your cruising along at 60 mph, the next your at 5. Beautiful day Friday, big crowd and no power. LOL Nothing is more humbling than to have to crawl past 50 other machines to find a spot to check things out. Wait, is that a 5 year old with pigtails out on her trike, better pull over before she mows me down, nice.

Anyway, better get to the point. After much trial and error, we discovered that we could unplug the second relay from the front (switch circuit relay) next to the shift lever and bypass the failure switch. This kills the dash so you can't tell how much fuel, speed, nothing but it will get you going until you can pull the clutch cover and reset the switch. I checked the forum and didn't see a post on this so I though somebody might find it handy in case your in the same situation. You can unplug the sensor by reaching under the plastic next to the shifter, unhooking the relay from it's mount so it drops down and then unplugging it. I taped up the plug to protect it from the elements and enjoyed the rest of the day. One word of warning though, this switch usually trips because of a belt going south or in extreme need of adjustment so I would consider taking it a little easier than normal on the rest of your ride. I've since replaced the belt and everything is now back to normal.

Anyone else experience this problem or have any comments?

 

i have heard that the switch will trip itself at some many miles/hours to signal a belt check or something anybody know of any truth in that?

 

Nightryder888 what you say is not true. The only way the belt condition switch can be turned off is by the belt hitting it and turning it off.

 

this might help


NYRocs belt switch tip

 

a completely dead battery will trip this also. or disconnecting battery. and it trips at 100 hours on the '03