What did you do in your garage today..?

[Relax]

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I told my wife that if I could get my bike up on the lift this weekend - I'd count it as a success. So I'm happy on that count.

But in the large, you're not wrong. I love this bike to death - every time I look at it, I fall in love again. But for some reason I feel snake-bit by it, and I don't know why. I've not had any problems with it (beyond this one, which apparently is not all that uncommon), nor any issues that weren't directly attributable to something I did. But somehow, I feel like I'm in abusive relationship. A female friend told me she thought it was going to my sweetheart, and I told her, she's no sweetheart - she's a big bad sexy ***** who wants to kill me.

So much so that this weekend, I started listening to my wife begging me to sell it and buy something else.

Do you not enjoy riding it? Seems like your problems have more to do with wrenching, but there's no guarantee ytou won't run into simmilar issues with any other bike. And doesn't your Multi only weigh about 220 lbs? Unless you're going for a 690 SMCR, you won't get much lighter.

 

[PacoT]

. And doesn't your Multi only weigh about 220 lbs? Unless you're going for a 690 SMCR, you won't get much lighter

I don't think so,sir.

Mr Google says for that generation of MS the wet weight is around 220 Kg or around 490 lbs

 

[PacoT]

I love this bike to death - every time I look at it, I fall in love again. But somehow, I feel like I'm in abusive relationship. A female friend told me she thought it was going to my sweetheart, and I told her, she's no sweetheart - she's a big bad sexy ***** who wants to kill me.

I understand you. I have a similar relationship with my monster.

When it works it's amazing. Mini power wheelies here and there. Great sound. I love how it looks even with my air hawk messing with the breathtaking Italian design.

But it has an intermittent error with the Throttle Position Sensor, where the ECU doesn't get the correct reading and it goes into limp mode. Internet says it's an easy fix, you just need to pay around $400 CAD for a new TPS (they are in the sixth revision now ). I get so mad when it happens. But then the next day, the error might be gone, and I twist the throttle and we are going into hyperspace. Just love the silliness of this thing.

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