This bike has really **** me off. I have a brand new battery, brand new rectifier and brand new stator. I have tried a lot of things. I have had this bike about 2 summers now. It first started last year when I was at the Kappa Beach Party. You can only go through traffic so fast. The first night the bike went dead. Everyone was telling me that the bike overheated. Until this day my temperature gauge has never been past halfway. I let the bike sit for about half hour then got a push start. In the morning I went and bought another battery, had it charged and rode on. Later on that night it died again. A mechanic told me later that the bike just probably overheated. This summer the same thing happens again. For some reason this doesn´t happen when I´m riding around town. This time I checked the bike out myself and I discovered the rectifier connector had burned and melted so of course I ordered another and also ordered a new stator while I was at it. I replaced both and found out again that this still did not correct the problem. A friend of mine came by to help me look it over and we found that the stator wires had melted together so we cut the melted wire which was only about 3 inches long and spliced the wires. I rode sat and then sun around town and there was no problem. When I got home I decided to let the bike idle on with the high beams on to make sure. It ran for about 10 or 15 minutes then it died. The battery was dead. What else could it be?