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Originally Posted by Dr.Hess
What happens at wide open throttle in 3rd or 4th gear? Same thing at a lower speed? Nothing? Or in neutral? The speed thing is some kind of confounder here. There's no speed sensor to ignition module link. No electronic speed sensor at all on that bike. So it's more like it takes from 90 to 60 for a breaker to reset or wires to reconnect themselves at a break or something like that.
Originally Posted by splattttttt
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Well Damn... I had that once... long ago... broken coil wire... worked till about 60MPH...where it blew off... bike decelerated till wire "fell" back onto coil...and Bamm... running again...
You have No Idea how long I looked for that Bastard!!!!
 
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