Right: My GS on the lift, ready for me to get to work.
Bottom Left: The carbon canister is easy to access on the left side of the GS below the rider’s seat.
Bottom Right: One hose from the sensor fitting comes off the left throttle body and the port must be capped.
soon as I released the clutch lever, it stalled out again. I pulled in the clutch again, turned on my four-way flashers, changed to the right lane and looked for a place to get off the road. Stopping at last in a wide part of the shoulder, I inspected the throttle bodies, throttle cables and such to see if
there was a physical obstruction. I popped off the right side panel to see if anything was clogging the air intake snorkel. Noth- ing was obvious, so I got back on and started the bike back up. Everything was fine as I rolled down the shoulder – until I got just above 2500 rpm, when the engine died again. Had I been closer to home (or the shop), I would have nursed the bike there in first
gear, but I was 20 miles away. I coasted off the highway onto a surface street and called for help. My friend and boss at Beemers Uber Alles, George Mangicaro, came to the rescue and hauled my bike to the shop; my friends Chase and Corey Hinderstein were kind enough to meet me at the shop and give me a ride home. Fortunately, Chase needed to drop off his bike for mainte- nance, so it worked out quite well.
It wasn’t until after New Year’s Day that I
was able to start trouble-shooting my prob- lem. Naturally, by then the problem seemed to have gone away. Going back over my actions before the breakdown, I remem- bered filling my gas tank up all the way and riding on an unseasonably warm day. My thoughts went to what happens when gas overfill escapes the tank and contaminates the carbon canister – the engine can run
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