An Embarrasing but funny story I have to share...

[CloverHillCrawler]

Never underestimate the effect of lack of sleep has on your judgement.

I went out yesterday to the DMV Spyder Ryder meet and greet. I worked on Friday night so I only took a nap when I got home; woke up early; rode down to Bowie; and had a great time seeing everyone.

I leave to go home, but on the way, nature calls, so I pull off to take care of business, then go back to the Spyder and it will not start. No codes are being thrown, but my battery is about 4 years old.

I call for roadside assistance as I don't have a battery pack and I start troubleshooting.

No problem, I get out my emergency toolkit from the frunk, get out my meter, battery has 12.6V, I can hear a relay click, but no starter, no codes, and the battery stays at 12.6 with no fluctuations.

I removed my tender connector and the fused USB power supply off the battery terminal and try again. Nothing.

I check my brake switch, no issues. I start to pull off the side cover so I can look at my linkage position when the tow truck driver shows up. (He was really quick with getting there.)

We try his jump pack with no results. It's getting dark and I'm really tired, so we just tow it back to my house.

Come back with my head hung low and the wife says to just sleep on it, and you will realize what's going on. I had dinner and went to sleep.

I woke up about a couple of hours ago and couldn't get it out of my head. Make a cup of tea, pull up the service manual on my computer, and start going over the starter system, thinking of what I would've missed.

After reading through the manual. I do a classic facepalm, walk down to my garage, and flip the kill switch.

I guess I was in such a rush to respond to mother nature that I hit the switch as I got off the bike.

Now I have to tell my wife in the morning that I spent a $100 for a tow and got home late because even though I did all of this other troubleshooting on the road, I didn't bother to check the kill switch.

I think I am attributing this to my lack of sleep and NOT having a senior moment!