Well after a year, most of which was caused by our friends at UPS, I finally got the 501 up and running. Right after I fired it up, I thought to myself, ahhh, I remember that exhaust note!
We were out for the memorial day weekend for the first outing and after cruising around for a 1/2 hour it quit, like someone hit the kill button. I knew by this it was ignition, and since the lower ignition was brand new I suspected the upper. Especially, since I let it set for an hour and it started right up. I let my buddies youngest ride it around the next day and warned him not to go too far from camp as I knew it would quit. He ended up getting towed back a few miles. So I replaced that and went out to the I-5 MX last thursday for a track day. Well, after my first stint of 1hour and 45 minutes I was pretty convinced that, as Cluseau would say, "the case, she is sol-ved".
The bike ran great with the exception of a bit of roughnes at low rpm which is probably a rich condition brought on by the quiet core in my Big Gun exhaust. So, next I will try dropping the needle one notch and see if that doesn't clean it up a bit.
It sure was nice getting the old girl running again. She took me to a few victories and a very low class number a couple of years back. And, nice to have another Husaberg in the garage!!
We were out for the memorial day weekend for the first outing and after cruising around for a 1/2 hour it quit, like someone hit the kill button. I knew by this it was ignition, and since the lower ignition was brand new I suspected the upper. Especially, since I let it set for an hour and it started right up. I let my buddies youngest ride it around the next day and warned him not to go too far from camp as I knew it would quit. He ended up getting towed back a few miles. So I replaced that and went out to the I-5 MX last thursday for a track day. Well, after my first stint of 1hour and 45 minutes I was pretty convinced that, as Cluseau would say, "the case, she is sol-ved".
The bike ran great with the exception of a bit of roughnes at low rpm which is probably a rich condition brought on by the quiet core in my Big Gun exhaust. So, next I will try dropping the needle one notch and see if that doesn't clean it up a bit.
It sure was nice getting the old girl running again. She took me to a few victories and a very low class number a couple of years back. And, nice to have another Husaberg in the garage!!
