Mini-Muffin: The battery is a new gel type.
1 Canuck: I'll take a look for corroded connections. The battery posts and cables WERE corroded badly the first time it quit on me.
1Canuck: No, it does not always happen when it's hot and it does not ONLY happen when it's hot. Looking back I can remember 3 incidents where it lost power to the coils when it got wet (once in WY, once in WV, and once at a car wash here in Flint). In those incidents the starter would crank ALL DAY LONG but the engine wouldn't fire. Wait 3-4 minutes and every time it started like always.
The bike still acts/starts like it has for 99,300 miles in every way EXCEPT these last two rides. It will start hot, cold, wet, whatever then this came up. AND it's not only when those two incidents happened that it didn't start but it wouldn't crank over, gauges went out, lights wouldn't work then minutes later EVERYTHING was normal !!??
I'll check the connections (busy right now but I've got 3 months before MI riding time). Even when the power was out the starter solenoid would buzz like it was trying to engage but didn't have the juice to fully activate.