It looks like Beloved Blue was dropping two cylinders because of corrosion on the contacts of the ignition control module which drives the coils. It's been a recurring problem.

The control module gets quite hot. The paste between it and it's heat sink had long since disappeared.

De-Oxit and De-Oxit Shield on the contacts and some heat sink thermal paste and it's burning oil once again on all four cylinders.

All is right in the world.

Burning oil in 100% of your cylinders is better than burning oil in 50% of your cylinders? German logic...

So when are you going ride that thing out this way again? Now that it's burning oil on all cylinders again, that is.

lol. Since meeting Rob, I've been getting ribbed a lot more for riding such an oil bike. At some point, Rob named it "The Oil Burner" for the old tech it represented.

I think they've also referred to it as the coal burner, but oil burner, since it always has burned a bit of oil, has stuck.

hmmm. Out There you say? I was thinking about that very thing today as a matter of fact. But isn't it your turn to come out here for a ride?

Um, yeah, but don't go changing the subject on us, here. Anyway, I've got excuses and stuff.

Now that you've been to northern Alaska, wouldn't it just be like a ride around the block?

Since you brought it up, how's "my" bike nowadays? The front end all happy again?

Your bike is actually better than ever. It looks a bit rougher but handles /so/ much better. Ohlins front and rear. Sticky 2CT tires. After the wreck in Deal's Gap, the front end has been repaired. It now has a Corbin seat that is a massive improvement.

But the bike may be cursed ... there was a little mishap at Total Control ... but it only suffer cosmetic blemishes.

Crazy to think it'll have 30K miles on it the next time I take it out ....

I'm sure it's thinking "You never call. You never write."

Awesome. Glad the hear that the blue beast is back in the land of the living

Just for the record, my comments about Yermo's rolling classic were be no means intended to be insulting. The USS Constitution for example is still a mighty fine ship. Aside from the somewhat unusual riding position (apparently helpful to have the forward reach of a particularly limber chimpanze), and the fact that it shines a warning light if you don't use the back brake, it is an amazingly stable platform. And were a comet to impact earth in the vicinity of the parking lot, I think we know which bike would ride out barely worse for wear. I am personally glad to see it on every ride knowing that if we were to be ambushed by terrorists, saftey from bullets is only a matter of diving behind the K's engine - a solid 900-1100lbs block of German steel.

Cheers!

LAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!

A bike carefully engineered for those with freakishly long arms ...

(had to catch my breath. LAUGH!!!)