2011 ColoRally

[3Phase]

Ah, ja, smoke from ze Fatherland und BMW putensmoke nichten remainen en das motrorevven boxenheaden electrosmoken partenshorten un allen ductapen fixenbroken.

So check for a fuse anyway just in case the bike isn't smarter than you think it is, the safety interkluge might have been hack^Wdesigned with the same tender loving care as some of their other bikes.

[motoman]

Maybe located similarly on that model......

MaBecause, I've just learned, the sidestand cut-out circuit was unfused.
> > The circuit runs from the ignition switch, via the kill switch and
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> certainly bypass the switch if I can because that switch cuts out a lot
> more circuits than just the engine.

If it's like mine, behind the right-hand panel, at the top, by the frame
rail there are two connectors. One's sort of cylindrical: the other is
squarish, and a two-pin jobbie.

That's the sidestand cut out. Unplug it, make up a short length of wire
with a connector at each end, and plug that into the male connector, one
end on each 'prong'.

That does the trick. Then cover in self-amalgamating tape, my new
favourite plaything.

[DiverRay]

No, a fuse is NOT the problem. The CHEAP AZZ switch they use IS the problem! A motor cop said he's been through THREE already! My fix is for the time I have the bike, and maybe longer.

[3Phase]

Okay, Ray, glad you got it fixed!

[Special Ed]

Welcome back Ray!

Next weekend is the Moto GP at Laguna Seca. I was going to suggest we go this year, but I just checked their website, and it seems the tickets are sold out! We could probably get tickets if we tried, but maybe we could just do "bike nite" on Cannery Row.
Special Ed

[jwhughes3]

Durango videos

For those that attended - I posted a couple of video clips on YouTube from that handlebar mounted camera I had...

Nothing too special but the scenery is nice.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jwhughes3

John

[Jerry]

John:

Thanks for posting the videos. I watched all three...wish I was down in that part of the country instead of sitting here on my desk.....

[jwhughes3]

should be 4 videos

#28 29 30 & 35 - you missed one

Where are you Jerry and did you move to DeBeque? I thought yours used to say something else...

John

[3Phase]

Thanks, John! I was back in Colorado for a little while there!

[Jerry]

John:

I have been in DeBeque since '06. Before that I was in Rifle, which is about 30 miles east of DeBeque. Both towns are right off I-70. DeBeque is about 35 miles east of Grand Junction.

I'll have to go back in and look at the 4th video, sorry I missed it!

If you don't mind, I would like to put a link to your videos, or at least the 6+ minute one, on my Colorado rally page. Would that be OK with you?

[jwhughes3]

no problem at all

I guess I remembered you saying Grand Junction and it stuck in my head -

Please post video links as you please - they are meant to share.

John

[Bonz]

Nice videos JW!

[ShootersHoliday]

John:

Thanks for posting the videos. I watched all three...wish I was down in that part of the country instead of sitting here on my desk.....

I don't know, debeque is nice. I was hoping to be down there this weekend.

Nice videos by the way, looks like I missed the rally by a month. dang it

[motoman]

I missed the rally by a month. dang it
No rally needed to ride...........rally of one.........or two.............just ride.......