Its never this easy when its your Bike!

Last night, rather late at night I popped over to my brothers to help him with a electrical problem on his girl friends ER-5. The problem was after a drop of the bike the rear indicators had stopped working, now the bulbs where fine and electric testing was showing the wiring had a connection, though it was about 2-4 volts. I said it sounded like a bad contact but the wiring diagram was confusing him...

I got there, spent about 15 minutes fiddling and found the cause was water in a connector block he hadn't found along with rusty/fuzzy connections. So with some WD-40 and a thin screw driver it started working and we where getting 9volts plus. Though it was noticed that if you move the block some times it stopped, but it was to dark to start stripping and soldering new connections.

Now my bike I spent 2 hours looking at it and still don't work, I need to schedule some time myself to sort it!

Rain = Bad Driving

What is it with a bit of rain and everyone seems to crash? I understand that its been dry for a little bit in the UK and that after that a lot of grease gets on the road when it starts raining, but it was raining yesterday too. So much of it has been washed away, plus its not like the people over here have never driven in the rain before...
Why am I moaning you might ask? Simple, on my 50 minute journey to work this morning I saw 3 incendents. First was on the A3 when it appears a 'motorway service' van drove itself off a straight road. Then on the A339 under the underpass for the A31 some one had managed to get there fiat smashed up. And last I watched a bloke in his new Porsche loose it on a rather simple roundabout, but managed to pull it back before he went off roading.
Calm down people, take a little bit longer in the rain please.