WEIRD behavior

[Honzilla]

As I have said in a couple other posts, I live in Hong Kong.  

It is the rainy season now, and they call it that for good reason.  It has been raining consistently for over a week.  I don't mean little wimpy sprinkles, I mean standing in the rain for 1 minute and you look like you fell in the harbor, kind of rain.

Well, getting to the point, it seems my CB is allergic to water!!!

This is the 3rd time it has happened.  Riding in VERY heavy rain, bike is running at normal operating temps.  Come to a stop light, and b-bb--b-bbb--b-b-bblah.  She dies.  Forget about restarting, might get one chance and if I'm not giving it the juice she won't restart.  Luckily each time this has happened I was on a rather steep incline and bump started her.

It seems as long as I can keep my RPM's about 1500 and up she'll stay awake, otherwise she just poops out...

Why is my old girl allergic to water???  Is there anything I can do???  I don't have a car, so NOT riding in the rain is NOT an option.

[Re-run]

Do you still have points? A common issue is the point cover gasket sucks. It is cork and just does not seal worth a darn. What I did was to get some round rubber, kinda like a string of rubber. Cut it to the length I need and glue it together. I then use this as a gasket. Works good.
Other possible issues might be dirty grounds or that the plug wires are getting cracks and grounding out.

[Honzilla]

It's times like these that I feel like a real noob!   I don't even know if my bike has points...  It's a 1991 so I'm assuming, no, but then again I have no idea.

Here in Hong Kong space is so precious that I have no where to work on my own bike. I don't even have any tools other than your usual socket set and a couple screw drivers.  Because of this space issue, I take my bike to a shop for just about EVERYTHING!  Which has it's ups and downs for sure.  Downs, oil changes are about $10.00 (U.S. dollars) more than they have to be.  Usually they find stuff, they don't try and screw me with fake repairs.  But it's a 20+ year old bike, so there's usually other stuff to do.

For example I think I need to replace my head/neck/steering bearing.  Sorry not sure exactly what it's referred to as.  But I feel a clunky-ness in the handle bars when in bumpy conditions, also sometimes under harder braking...

I REALLY like this bike, but I think I might have to wimp out and buy a new 250 ninja, or stick with Honda and get a CBR250.  Bikes here are so darn expensive...

[TOOLS1]

Don't wimp out! The steering stem bearings probably just need adjusted. Not a big job, and can be done with the original tool kit that came with the bike. To find your problem with dying when it is wet, just take a spray bottle filled with water, and spray the electrical parts while the bike is idling. When it starts to sputter, you have found the problem.
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