[ST] re: RS not turning over - really embarrassingly stupid confession!!!!

["Matt Lyon" <lyonm@xxxxxxx>]

In my own defense, let me say I'd been away for two weeks before trying to start the RS.  I tried to start it while standing at the side, not sitting on the machine, and kept trying from that position these last two days.  One of the list suggestions about the clutch cut-off wire caused me to remember that maybe, just maybe, there's something about PULLING IN THE CLUTCH LEVER before starting the motor, and sure enough, it fired right up.  Maybe if I'd bothered to sit on the bike, and put my hands on the grips, that part of the ritual would have fired in my brain!  At any rate, when things go wrong, remember the most obvious "well, duh!" things first. And to think I just finished the first year of a doctoral program!  Jeez!
Matt Lyon
Portland, OR
now with a perfectly running lucifer '00 RS

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