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



Hey Peter,
   Are you going to Laguna Seca this weekend?
Al
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From: <peter.chittum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: [ST] re: RS not turning over - really embarrassingly stupid
confession!!!!


> 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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