July 28, 2014 11:26 AM PDT
Well, this may or may not apply to the bike that shall not be named...but, a few years ago I had a similar problem. I had ditched my car and decided that I was gonna use my sportster as my primary vehicle. It also turned out to be the 2nd rainiest winter in California history. Whenever I would get caught riding in the rain, the regulator would get wet, the bike would stop running and you'd have to coast over somewhere and dry it off, after which, it would run for a little while and die again. I had meant to get a cover for it, and you can also put some dielectric grease on the spark plug wire ends which might help minimize that...I just put up with it until summer though and tried not to ride in the rain...besides, even if the bike ran, my boots always got full of water too....**** that.