Re: stalling

["brian thompson" <triumph1200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This same thing happened on my BMW K100Rs about 6 years ago. That bike was
fuel injected as well. On the Beemer it was the fuel injection computer that
went weiner schnitzel up on me. $900 later, she ran like new.
- -----Original Message-----
From: David Gilmore <dgilmore@xxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 1:25 PM
Subject: stalling


>A peculiar thing happened the other day, and I'm curious if anyone else has
>had the same thing happen to them.  The wife and I went for a short ride,
>and after about 100 miles we stopped at a gas station to fill up.  The ST
>had run just perfectly up to that point.  After getting gas, I started her
>up, and lo and behold, she wouldn't idle.  I could keep her running by
>giving her some throttle, but as soon as I let go of the throttle, she
>quit.  She would start up easily, and seemed to take gas well, but just
>wouldn't idle.  So, I started home and she ran perfectly, until the first
>stop.  As soon as I let off the gas and got down to about 10mph, she quit.
>I started her up again, and went the remaining 5 miles home and she died in
>the driveway.  I pushed her in the garage, and two hours later, started her
>up and she ran and idled perfectly.  Today, I took her out and she ran and
>idled perfectly again.  The day that this happened it was rather cool out,
>so it wasn't an overheating problem.  I suppose that something in the
>computer didn't remember to set the idle, but I'm not sure that's exactly
>what happened.  I guess I'll just ride her until it happens again, if it
>does.  Has anyone else had a similiar problem?  I remember reading about
>some electrical problems, but I don't think any of them were just like
>this.   Thanks for your input,
>David Gilmore     99ST    98Tiger  99Nomad
>
>
>
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