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Three weeks ago I left to go to work after just getting off my blackbird. I only had one call Friday and it wasn't going to take long. I was back in my driveway at 8 a.m. my bird was gone. I walked around behind the house, to the neighbors, up one block looked down the street. Like it was my dog that had wandered off. The reality set in. My bird was stolen. I recovered my baby Friday. You can see the difference. My insurance company had told me they're reporting it as junk. This VIN can never be titled in Oklahoma again. Other than venting, I guess I'm posting here because I hate to see her just be towed away. This bike has 25k miles on it. Always royal purple oil used. It has D&D exhaust. There's a lot of good left including the coveted LCD's and the processors containing that 25k mile information. They're all removed from the cluster because it was shattered to pieces. I can install the displays on your cluster, it's easy. I haven't gotten a price for the buy back yet. But if I can sell enough parts to other bbxx enthusiasts to cover that cost and help someone at the same time I'll do exactly that. Only 4503 made in 2002. We just lost one to a rotten thief that had no idea what he was taking. Thanks for your time.
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So like many of us, I installed a Audiovox CS 100 cruise control. It has worked great for 10 years, and thirty thousand miles. Late last year, my bike would intermittently run rough. A stumble would best describe it. I was due plugs, but they did not help. All plugs were a little dark, but not fouled. My gas mileage had also dropped from 220 miles per tank to 160. Then it got worse. Intermittently, I would be hard on the throttle, and the bike would just jump to a higher speed. This was so un-controllable, that I was afraid to ride it. No errors were logged in the ECM. Since the bike didn't indicate a problem, I figured that it must have been a Farkle that I added. I removed the cruise first. Or I should say that I removed the cruise engine speed sense lead from my coil. Three tanks later, and I have not had the problem come back. The cruise must have been causing the coil to randomly misfire. Just a heads up on a possible strange failure. And a question? Has anyone installed any of the newer cruise systems made today? Any favorites? Cruise is too nice to do without on a long legged bike like the XX. also, i think that I will try to use the VSS signal on my next install. I just didn't want to mod my harness in any way.
