Random features of the Black Bike.
I rode the bike to work today, and got to experience how it behaves in traffic.
Feature 1. Sometimes while sitting at a light and idling, the bike's engine will slow down and then die. It will restart easily enough, but this is not fun and is rather embarrassing, especially since I had just pulled up next to an R1 the first time this happened. Turning up the idle seems to prevent this from happening, but that's not a good solution.
Feature 2. Coming home, I pulled into the driveway and put the bike in neutral to let it idle and cool the turbo down. It began to run rough, and I saw that cylinder #1 was no longer firing. (A triple EGT gauge is great here. I can look and see which exhaust pipe is cold.)
Revving the engine didn't bring cylinder 1 back, so I suspect that I fouled the spark plug. I'll get into it this weekend. I need to put the laptop on the bike and see if I can get a data log of the problems happening.
I put on a new battery, so hopefully that will fix the sensor spikes that I've been seeing in the datalogs. Battery voltage would fall and all the other sensors would shoot off to infinity, then the system would rapidly recover. The bike would not even stumble when this was happening because it all took place in a hundredth of a second. But it is a problem. I've been hoping that it was just the old battery acting up.
And I think the throttle position sensor may be bad. That's an easy replacement, so I'll do that as soon as I get some more money back in the bank.
Thus Sunday I'll be going to www.airheadsalvage.com's site to rummage for parts, and to pick up the owner's Honda CX650 Turbo. I'm hoping that I can get it running for him in exchange for bike parts. Stay tuned.
Feature 1. Sometimes while sitting at a light and idling, the bike's engine will slow down and then die. It will restart easily enough, but this is not fun and is rather embarrassing, especially since I had just pulled up next to an R1 the first time this happened. Turning up the idle seems to prevent this from happening, but that's not a good solution.
Feature 2. Coming home, I pulled into the driveway and put the bike in neutral to let it idle and cool the turbo down. It began to run rough, and I saw that cylinder #1 was no longer firing. (A triple EGT gauge is great here. I can look and see which exhaust pipe is cold.)
Revving the engine didn't bring cylinder 1 back, so I suspect that I fouled the spark plug. I'll get into it this weekend. I need to put the laptop on the bike and see if I can get a data log of the problems happening.
I put on a new battery, so hopefully that will fix the sensor spikes that I've been seeing in the datalogs. Battery voltage would fall and all the other sensors would shoot off to infinity, then the system would rapidly recover. The bike would not even stumble when this was happening because it all took place in a hundredth of a second. But it is a problem. I've been hoping that it was just the old battery acting up.
And I think the throttle position sensor may be bad. That's an easy replacement, so I'll do that as soon as I get some more money back in the bank.
Thus Sunday I'll be going to www.airheadsalvage.com's site to rummage for parts, and to pick up the owner's Honda CX650 Turbo. I'm hoping that I can get it running for him in exchange for bike parts. Stay tuned.