Warnig triangle light.....

[pericep]

Red triangle warning light came on the over day on my 2003 BCR. All the manual says is there is a problem which if left unresolved could affect the bike........?

Has oil, has brake fluid, ABS works, runs fine.

Any suggestions of what the little red triangle could be ?

[signit98]

...Hey, pericep... which isle? Used to go winsurfing there GC, Teneriffe and Lanzarote... loved Pozo... and Las Americas and Medano... man, fun times... Fuerte was good too, but to crowded...

Sorry, with the light, I can not offer any help.

[pericep]

Gran Canaria. Given up on windsurfing, trying kitesurfing now (easier to be mediocre at !)

[signit98]

Actually... a friend of mine spends his winters there... maybe you'll meet him Kitesurfing some day... Armin Loose... German guy.... lives 1/2 year on GC and the other half in Germany... Sylt.

I kitesurf... fun sport, better here in San Diego, as there is never enough wind for windsurfing... but, have been out of it for a while because of a couple of knee surgeries... hope to be back at it by winter time!

[Sideshow_S]

Ummm . .. are you talking about the hazard flashers?

[Eisernkreuz]

Originally Posted by Sideshow_S

Ummm . .. are you talking about the hazard flashers?

that would be hilarious.

[pericep]

It would indeed be hilarious, but no, I'm not talking about the hazard flashers !

[RoLoo]

Originally Posted by pericep

...any suggestions of what the little red triangle could be ?...

...I had that once, and it turned out to be a 'kaput' brake light...

[MoDog]

If it's not a bad brake light bulb, it's often a precursor of battery failure. It seems to happen when the battery is in the in between stage of not holding the steady charge of a strong battery but stilll has enough charge to keep the battery light off. If you keep the battery tender hooked up between rides, it should cure it for a while.

[Ryan Coke]

I had this very same issue but only until the bike warmed up. It was intermittent at first and the manual indicated that it meant a failure of the brake/tail light. A quick walk around confirmed that both elements of the bulb were actually working.

When I was in having the brake fluid flushed, I had them interrogate for codes from this warning light. They said it was showing a voltage drop and that I should put the battery on a tender.

Here is the thing, I always plug the bike in when parked in the garage, so with the battery being 6 years old, I figured perhaps it was on the way out. I didn't want to get any ABS faults, so I replaced the battery. I still had this issue every morning.

So I thought about it and figured, could this thing be smart enough to be telling me that although the bulb hasn't actually failed yet, failure was just around the corner?

So I replaced the 5 dollar bulb and voila, the problem went away!

[Highlander179]

there's a built in safety feature with the tail light bulb. if one filament burns out, the other filament does double duty as brake light and tail light. when you check to see that both are working, they will, but I guarantee one filament is out on the bulb itself.

other things to check are battery, and that the ABS unit itself is full, not just the reserviors.

99 out of 100 cases are one of these 3

[hawkeyejohn14]

Originally Posted by RoLoo

...I had that once, and it turned out to be a 'kaput' brake light...

If it is the bulb, do not handle the new bulb with bare hands or the the oils on your fingers will make short life of the bulb or the brake light part anyway.

[EZ-RIDER]

Would the use of LED brake light bulb do the same thing

[Ryan Coke]

Originally Posted by EZ-RIDER

Would the use of LED brake light bulb do the same thing

Without some sort of resister or load equalizer associated with the LED array, I would guess yes it would. An LED uses much less power than a regular bulb which may make the computer think it is a blown bulb.

[hawkeyejohn14]

Originally Posted by Highlander179

there's a built in safety feature with the tail light bulb. if one filament burns out, the other filament does double duty as brake light and tail light. when you check to see that both are working, they will, but I guarantee one filament is out on the bulb itself.

other things to check are battery, and that the ABS unit itself is full, not just the reserviors.

99 out of 100 cases are one of these 3

I just put my hand back to the tail light and apply brake, no brake light, filament is out. I can easily see my tail light is still working, but there is no double duty on my 2004 as you stated.

[SergioK]

Yeah, that never happened on my 2002 when my brake filament burnt out. Changed the bulb and all was well.