2006 Suzuki GSX-R600 Electrical system Problems

“I was riding my motorcycle on a 2 lane road, when all of a sudden as I was riding my motorcycle just turned off. Without any warnings or anything. I was real close to getting hit by the car behind me when my bike shut off. Luckily the car behind me was able to stop in time before hitting me. As reading online this issue has happened to a lot of people with the same model bike and year. This issue was then taken to a shop to determine what happened, that when I was told that the stator regulator and rectifier was gone bad. …”

“Riding home after work on back highway and lost all power to bike. Rear tire locked up a bit, so had to pull clutch and cut across the highway to park on the shoulder. Power loss was instant and if cars were behind me, it likely would have been an accident. Power loss was complete, so I had no brake lights or blinkers. The master fuse blew due to a problem with the regulator rectifier. The shop I took it to thought there was a recall for the issue, but it sounds like possibly 2007 may have a recall for this issue, which uses the same regulator. …”

“Started up the bike and it felt kind of sluggish. Rode about 10 miles and the bike cut off on me and all I could smell was burning electronics and there was a lot of smoke coming from the rectifier that was on fire. I quickly disconnected the battery from the bike and waited for a tow truck to come. I know there is recalls on later model suzukis with the rectifier, but why not the 06 to 07s? I'm assuming that Suzuki uses the same voltage regulator regardless of the years. My motorcycle could have gone up in flames. This needs to be addressed immediately.”

“I was driving down interstate at night and my motorcycle lost all power, there was no warning or anything just died. If there would of been another vehicle behind me then I could of easily been in a serious accident. I was able to get over to the side of the road and I could smell something hot in the front of the bike. I had to get it towed home. I started researching if anyone else had this issue and found that a lot of people have had the same issue. It is the rectifier / regulator towards the front of the bike, it gets hot and burns up. …”

“Problem has been labeled the herky jerkies. While riding at any RPM when the rear wheel speed matches engine speed the throttle shuts off abruptly with no warning, throwing you forward overloading the front wheel. When the wheel slows enough that the ecu calls for fuel it delivers a large amount of fuel and the bike jerks forward unloading the front wheel causing an unrecoverable front wheel slide (while leaned over in a turn). There is a large amount of people including myself working on the problem, we have discovered ways to mask the problem but no resolution to date. …”