Broken

I walked out to the little Honda CRF250L ready for the commute to work only to find my rear left indicator hanging from my bike.

On closer inspection it looks like the housing broke somehow, I may have knocked it getting on the bike but it's clearly not a strong point on the bike.

I'm not sure how this happened but I've temporarily fastened it with a cable tie.

I took a drive to Honda Sandton this morning, to see what a new one would cost. I need to purchase the entire unit, just the housing isn't available, but it's over R900 which seems like a lot of cash for something with clearly isn't designed to last.

I'm going to be investigating some LED indicators with the hopes of being able to ship them here cheaply will report back with my decision.

Low fuel

The little Honda CRF250L has been ticking along nicely. I've had a little jerking at low fuel levels before but I seem to have got the fuel level rather low on my commute the other day. On a perfectly straight road pulling away from a stop was enough to swish the fuel backwards in the tank and cause a massive hole in the power delivery as no fuel was available. It was far more pronounced than the last time I experienced this. I was very nervous stopping on a slope and rode with very smooth movements to the nearest station where I filled up. It took 7.4L of fuel so there should have been another 300ml remaining, so it was low but the fuel starvation and resultant power loss is very concerning. I generally do try to fill up as soon as possible when the fuel guage starts flashing, I obviously left that very late in this instance and it's definitely something I'll try to avoid in the future.