Horn Rapids Hare Scramble
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 3:47 am
Well, this race almost did not ahppen for me. It was a horrific battle getting everything ready, working out of state has few pluses and MANY minuses!
I got home Thursday night, Friday morning found me in the garage with a completely dissassembled quad. A motor in a box a new HMF pipe and a denton steering stabilizer. I have to leave for the race tomorrow (Saturday) which means Ive got to try to get the bike running and in for a re map tonight (friday)
I spend the next 5 hours getting everything back together and it looks to be perfect.
Roll it out of the garage and after a few cranks she fires right up!
I call the wife and let her listen to the roar of the engine. It's running for about 4 minutes and I give it some gas. HUGE flame coming out of the exhuast pie. Revlimiter is hit almost instantly and then this popping flame. Man, Im gonna need that remap.
I smell gas... Look down and there's about a 1/2 gallon a minute running onto my engine (flame coming out of the tail pipe) My blood runs ice cold and I shut it down. When intstalling the radiator I had knocked the clip off the injector line from the fuel pump, the pressure eventually blew the fitting off.
I went inside and finished filling out the bike's insurance papers, put them in the mail, then went back to work.
No further problems, got it running (though not well with the cannibal map and HMF pipe) and drove to dealer for my scheduled appointment for remap. Drive 1 hour to the dealer after 30 minutes of working on the bike the owner comes up and says, "Not gonna work, my computer wont interface"
HUH?! so what now? I cant run it with the falme coming out of the back like that..
"Oh, I know guys that run em like that all the time, but as for the remap you're SOL" and he walked away leaving me with my jaw hangning in my lap.
I got ahold of my wife and she called all the dealers in the state (my cell phone died) and I drove home ina complete panic that this was not going to happen and Id be screwed.
I got home and she informed me that a nearby dealer had me scheduled for a 9 am remap, it would be free and they were looking forward to seeing me.
YES! im not dead yet!
I got there at 9am and wheeled the bike in, the tech hooked up the lap top and went to start the bike... nothing
Not a **** thing, the bike wouldnt turn over.
"What the?!" Ive never had an ounce of trouble and now the bike wont even turn over to get the map loaded!?
The tech left the shop and came back a minute later and said that he called his cannondale guru who was off that day, hed be there in an hour to help us out. Kim and I left to get something to eat... dejected. There was no way I was going to make this race.
We got back and there was the guru and my bike. I walked up, sure that he had drawn a big fat zero, then I smelled the heat off the exhaust.
"It works?!"
Yep, you had a loose ground, map's loaded up, had to make a few adjustments (lot of tech talk that blew right by me cause I was not prepared for it to be working) and he shook my hand, bade me a good day, and oggd luck and got in his car and drove back home.
The amazing part is that they wouldnt let me pay them for the work which was considerable to get the motospeed map loaded. Talk about customer service.!@!
We loaded it all up and got ready for the drive, a friend of mine was a last minute addition to the drive over.
Cont...
I got home Thursday night, Friday morning found me in the garage with a completely dissassembled quad. A motor in a box a new HMF pipe and a denton steering stabilizer. I have to leave for the race tomorrow (Saturday) which means Ive got to try to get the bike running and in for a re map tonight (friday)
I spend the next 5 hours getting everything back together and it looks to be perfect.
Roll it out of the garage and after a few cranks she fires right up!
I call the wife and let her listen to the roar of the engine. It's running for about 4 minutes and I give it some gas. HUGE flame coming out of the exhuast pie. Revlimiter is hit almost instantly and then this popping flame. Man, Im gonna need that remap.
I smell gas... Look down and there's about a 1/2 gallon a minute running onto my engine (flame coming out of the tail pipe) My blood runs ice cold and I shut it down. When intstalling the radiator I had knocked the clip off the injector line from the fuel pump, the pressure eventually blew the fitting off.
I went inside and finished filling out the bike's insurance papers, put them in the mail, then went back to work.
No further problems, got it running (though not well with the cannibal map and HMF pipe) and drove to dealer for my scheduled appointment for remap. Drive 1 hour to the dealer after 30 minutes of working on the bike the owner comes up and says, "Not gonna work, my computer wont interface"
HUH?! so what now? I cant run it with the falme coming out of the back like that..
"Oh, I know guys that run em like that all the time, but as for the remap you're SOL" and he walked away leaving me with my jaw hangning in my lap.
I got ahold of my wife and she called all the dealers in the state (my cell phone died) and I drove home ina complete panic that this was not going to happen and Id be screwed.
I got home and she informed me that a nearby dealer had me scheduled for a 9 am remap, it would be free and they were looking forward to seeing me.
YES! im not dead yet!
I got there at 9am and wheeled the bike in, the tech hooked up the lap top and went to start the bike... nothing
Not a **** thing, the bike wouldnt turn over.
"What the?!" Ive never had an ounce of trouble and now the bike wont even turn over to get the map loaded!?
The tech left the shop and came back a minute later and said that he called his cannondale guru who was off that day, hed be there in an hour to help us out. Kim and I left to get something to eat... dejected. There was no way I was going to make this race.
We got back and there was the guru and my bike. I walked up, sure that he had drawn a big fat zero, then I smelled the heat off the exhaust.
"It works?!"
Yep, you had a loose ground, map's loaded up, had to make a few adjustments (lot of tech talk that blew right by me cause I was not prepared for it to be working) and he shook my hand, bade me a good day, and oggd luck and got in his car and drove back home.
The amazing part is that they wouldnt let me pay them for the work which was considerable to get the motospeed map loaded. Talk about customer service.!@!
We loaded it all up and got ready for the drive, a friend of mine was a last minute addition to the drive over.
Cont...