Bike repair take #1

It was already late when I finished my push workout, I was tired and didn't had a clue where the electrical failure could be, a couple of good reasons to postpone the research to the next morning. Trying to avoid having to take off the heavy full tank, I decided to start by checking the connections on the ignition key and go from there. I took the front right fairing off, funny fact, the fairing has 4 screws fixing it but they are all different and I needed a different tool for each of them :-) (note: this is not by design). Once I exposed the ignition switch I immediately saw the culprit.

Now I just to take care of it, I welded it as good as I could, did a pull test on it and it seamed ok, then protected it with gorilla tape, mounted it back and everything looked fine. Allen and Ricardo, who had just arrived the evening before, offered themselves to escort me during the test ride (just in case).

We stopped around 10 kms to talk about where to go next and I switched off the engine, when we agreed everyone left, I turned the key on but nothing happened, tried moving the cable on the engine switch but it didn't help, meanwhile Allen and Ricardo had returned and Allen called for a truck to pick us up.

By the time we're back, another day was gone and the bike was still not working properly. Besides that I saw that the water expansion tank was completely empty and during the short ride I also noted that the steering bearings were not ok, another thing that bothers me is that the bike has no working speedometer or tachometer, that means I'll never know exactly how many kms I've done since the last refill and that's not good.