If this gosh darn bike leaves me alongside the road again I'm either gonna leave it there with the keys or trade it for a Honda. 3 times the throttle has gone limp. Each time at the worst possible time. Once in a big pack of bikes and twice while merging onto the freeway. Each time it throws codes for tbw and tps. First time I limped home. I took my bars apart and double checked everything (internal wired apes). Everything was solid, put it back together, bike ran fine. 2nd time had to trailer home, never messed with the bars, half assed cleaned and put dielectric on tb plug. Bike ran fine. Today it happens on the freeway as I accelerated to merge with traffic. Sitting along I-64 with traffic whipping by 5 feet away at 70+ mph in the dark I wiggle the tb plug and it starts and runs fine. Cleaned the **** out of the plug today with contact cleaner, q-tips and emory cloth. Bent the pins a little and put back together with dielectric. Next time... If anyone see's a red flhr sitting along side the road in SE Va...its yours. Rant over.

 

Everybody has their moments. My "moments" have always been with TC's in general. Being an individual that swallowed all the hype and BS with the introduction of the TC....I tried three of them. Went through the rear cam-bearing thing. Went through the chain tensioner thing. The third time was no charm either. I happily ride on an EVO RK now and have not noticed the slightest problem with the cam bearings or chain tensioners.

Good Luck!

 

Definitely sounds like loose pins. pull them out of the connector and tighten them up a bit. should solve all you probs. sorry to hear man. ride safe...

 

Did I see the word FREE there somewhere? I'm hitching up my trailer now....where will you be riding today?

Just kidding friend, my bike is the cable type, I don't know beans about TBW, but I wish you luck. You have fewer moving parts in that setup so much less to rule out, downside is electrical and "sensors", arrggghh.

 

A bro of my has had basiclly the same problem the last couple of weeks ...had to go pick him up just this past sunday about 40 miles out .....got to checking things last nite and he found that the battery screw (neg. side ) was stripped out causing everything to shut down ...those codes you are getting may just be the first out ....