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Cross posting from Burgmanriders.com for any ideas
thanks in advance
Bike is a 2008 AN 650 AK8 executive, picked it up feb and at the time it had done 40,554 miles, since then I have done about 2,000 miles doing general day to day commuting and day trips out here and there, riding sensibly, never thrashing it.
A few weeks ago travelling down the motorway at 70+ mph , all of a sudden lost all power on throttle, managed to get onto hard shoulder safely, had been riding "A" roads and motorway for 90 miles without a break, then spent the rest of the day having bike recovered home ! The bike ran and all electrics worked without any strange noises, just had no transmission to back wheel at all.
My neighbourhood trusted garage, have found that the CVT belt has failed, bikes currently done about 42500 miles, garage has found that a replacement belt is quite expensive and have also recommended that two "nylon" gears need replacing as well.
Garage has been told by their supplier that the CVT belt failure is quite common on the 650's and gave one story of the CVT belt failing, again, a few months after replacement and that the belt can fail due to other contributing factors ? I've been reading the forums here and at http://burgmanriders.com/ for hours and it seems (?) that the CVT belt can fail or NOT at any time after about 20,000 miles for no real reason ?
Guess the belt and gears need replacing, but the reason for the post...are there other areas that can / ought to be checked seeing as most of the bike is stripped i.e. the mechanic discussed that an issue in the gear box could have contributed to the belt failure, but stripping and checking the gearbox would be a lot of work and may not be an issue ! and any recommendations on preferred suppliers / stockists of parts in the UK, although guess I need to replace with authorised SUZUKI parts and not aftermarket ones !
Any constructive ideas / comments greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
Steve
Bike is a 2008 AN 650 AK8 executive, picked it up feb and at the time it had done 40,554 miles, since then I have done about 2,000 miles doing general day to day commuting and day trips out here and there, riding sensibly, never thrashing it.
A few weeks ago travelling down the motorway at 70+ mph , all of a sudden lost all power on throttle, managed to get onto hard shoulder safely, had been riding "A" roads and motorway for 90 miles without a break, then spent the rest of the day having bike recovered home ! The bike ran and all electrics worked without any strange noises, just had no transmission to back wheel at all.
My neighbourhood trusted garage, have found that the CVT belt has failed, bikes currently done about 42500 miles, garage has found that a replacement belt is quite expensive and have also recommended that two "nylon" gears need replacing as well.
Garage has been told by their supplier that the CVT belt failure is quite common on the 650's and gave one story of the CVT belt failing, again, a few months after replacement and that the belt can fail due to other contributing factors ? I've been reading the forums here and at http://burgmanriders.com/ for hours and it seems (?) that the CVT belt can fail or NOT at any time after about 20,000 miles for no real reason ?
Guess the belt and gears need replacing, but the reason for the post...are there other areas that can / ought to be checked seeing as most of the bike is stripped i.e. the mechanic discussed that an issue in the gear box could have contributed to the belt failure, but stripping and checking the gearbox would be a lot of work and may not be an issue ! and any recommendations on preferred suppliers / stockists of parts in the UK, although guess I need to replace with authorised SUZUKI parts and not aftermarket ones !
Any constructive ideas / comments greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
Steve