RE: [ST] re: RS not turning over - really embarrassingly stupid c onfession!!!!

[peter.chittum@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ahh Matt...

I once spent an hour going back and forth between my bike and a pay phone
(before I owned a mobile phone), getting rides from a Sheriff and another
biker before that other biker stuck the key in the ignition, TURNED THE KILL
SWITCH TO ON, and started my bike right up. 

Sometimes you just can't think of everything.

Peter Chittum
'01 BRG ST
San Jose, CA, USA 

> --- Matt Lyon <lyonm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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