swooshdave

I wish I could take credit but alas, I can't.

So it appears that the seat style doesn't have a lot to do with how sporty you want to be.

That seat looks very good and comfortable. The leather looks awesome and while it will require more maintenance, @ChrisPDX is the perfect person to tend to it. Me, on the other hand, would have it rotting in a week. Chris has mentioned to me that he'd like to take the bike touring. As he road races now (and has for a very long time) he doesn't the urge to drag pegs on the street. That's only for posers who don't actually race.

When you say "old duffers"... you mean everyone here, correct?

I need to ride the bike now and try out the pegs.

You can still see the Rubbermaid logo. That's awesome! Also CAD actually stands for Cardboard Aided Design...

I was lucky and the documentation for the recall was included when I bought the bike. Mine was done at the original dealer, Moto International.

That's great! I think there's a similar shop in Oregon, I'd have to look at my notes. (I don't actually have notes but it sounds better when I say that).

Definitely step one is to make sure you have a solid backup of the map.

Technically there is a spherical bearing attached to the damper clamp. It just happens to attach to the triple clamp. But let's see if we can get @ChrisPDX for some more photos of the dampener mount to clear things up.

From the pictures provided there’s nothing to indicate that the HyperPro is mounted any differently than the stock dampener. I’m not sure what you are seeing that would suggest otherwise.

I’m seeing zero difference between the Shindy mount and the Hyperpro mount. Each have two spherical bearings in the same location. What am I missing?

Make it so, Number One.

They don’t know me by my full name, I’m just @swooshdave around here. 😜

Were you able to use the factory mount?

I wasn’t having any luck on the Hyperpro site or even just Googling that part number. ☹️

Correct

Exactly

The good news is the power wires to the coils are marked. Which is nice if you know Italian or are handy with Google Translate. Actually my friend’s wife spent time in Italy and we could have asked her too. He had replaced the TPS screws and could have easily bumped it too. Regardless, it now sounds amazing. He’s got the FbF mufflers and a Power Commander.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner! It was the ignition coil supply leads! Pretty sure the misadjusted TPS (it wasn’t right before I screwed it up) didn’t help. It sounds spectacular!

Can you update the Decent Tune Up post to say that you have to turn the ignition on for the test. I know it should be apparent but…

Thanks! Google Translate helped us too. Which leads us to believe the wires were actually crossed! The one thing I didn’t trust is if the Italians to map stuff while sitting on the bikes. 😜

Anyone remember which coil wire goes to which coil? SX and OX? The workshop manual is a copy and doesn’t have the legend.

So should we be measuring with the ignition on?