Last week's 1000mile trip round Scottish Highlands soon found the Achilles Heel.....rain-soaked reg/rectifier connector behind front wheel enforced a breakdown recovery to a dry garage where a telephone tutorial from my home Yam agent soon had fault 'isolated'. Borrowed voltmeter & starter battery & was able to clear the management warning lights & re-start. Fault recurred 3 times later but was cleared by gently 'working' the reg. connector at roadside. The grease & WD40 permanent fix is next, with a waterproof boot of my own design. Begs the question, though, why a bike intended for use in UK should be so susceptible to a little bit of Scottish rain. Lots of it,actually but it was only an inch deep.
Thanks to:-
Road&Track for phone workshop tutorial
Stag Garage Lochgilphead for use of facilities and recovery
Norwich Union/Aviva for arranging recovery

And another thing................................

No thanks to YamahaAssist for being absolutely no use at all. Whatsoever. Chocolate fireguards all. Refused to get the bike any further than the garage who recovered it.

(Because the Stag Garage can not fix Yamaha engine management, they should not be a 'place of repair' according to YamAssist's terms & conditions. YamAssist should have offered recovery to a Yam agent instead of expecting me to borrow Stag's facilities while phoning home to my local agent for advice on how to fix my own bike. But then I suppose I didn't need the 'assistance' because I'd been provident & bought Europe-wide recovery. I'd been clever enough & resourceful enough to arrange recovery through the insurance company, phone for instructions from a dealer & convince a commercial garage that I was ok to fix my bike using their workshop & their tools. Which is ok for me because all I lost was my time. Had I been mechanically inept &/or reliant on the 'assistance' which came with my new bike I would have had a bill for �700+. I know this because I asked how much it would've cost.)