Mysterious bike electrical shutdown

[red_phil]

Morning all.
I'm off work today. Mainly because my bike died 1/2 way to work and I pushed it home.

It 1st did this last thursday. The bike started fine then 30 seconds later it spluttered, misfired then died. All light were out , horn wouldn;t work, nothing from the starter motor. In short no electrics.

I figured the fuse had gone so I swaped it for the spare , put the covers back on an it started fine. It ran fine all dayt Friday and Saturday. Sunday was a day off for the bike. Today the bike started and got me a mile down the road, then the same thing hapened, but this time I had no spare fuse.

Anyway after pushing the bike up over the hill and freewheeling down the far sideI got home. I've called work and taken the day off to try and fix this.

I checked the fuse from Thursday with a multimeter and it's fine.
(Resistance 0.9 Ohms)
I've not checked the one that is in at the moment, but I suspect it's fine too.

Anyone got any ideas? My general plan it to start by checking all the connectors possibly one I may have jiggled whiles swapping fuses on thursday.

[The Buddha]

Bad ground ... or some in the connections to the battery ... Fuse may be OK but its contacts may be corroded and not making contact ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[red_phil]

looks like it was corroded connectors in the fuse clips and between the battery and the fuse.

Cleaned them up and everything seems to be working.
Fingers crossed.

I wonder if this might get rid of the intermittant miss fires my bike has always had in damp weather.