I was "making progress" round the M25 yesterday morning; road was a bit wet. I rolled off the throttle as I was rapidly approaching three lanes of near-stationary traffic. All of a sudden the engine died, and locked up the back wheel at about 60mph
As I slid between the two outside lanes of cars I was hoping the engine would burst back into life, but it just kept sliding...so I pulled in the clutch and managed to roll across to the hard shoulder, convinced the engine had had a major mechanical failure
But...first tentative stab of the starter and it fired back into life!
It's been fine since...I have convinced myself that it is a bit lumpy on the over-run anyway, and just died, and due to wet road there was not enough grip for the wheel to to turn the engine over. I was wondering if another possibility may be carb-icing in the damp -- does the VTR suffer from icing?
Dunno what I can take from the experience, other than every day is a bonus from here on in...
Sound familiar to anyone?
