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Thanks Lois. :bowdown:I am pleased that you managed to track it down.

Pogo.

I've been running searches for a couple of hours looking for an old (2009-ish) about an exhaust mod. :banghead:

The mod involved making a pair of cones out of perforated plate and fitting them...

I'm a right leg amputee in Oz. The ISCI brake seemed ideal, but the cost, plus shipping and taxes when it lands made me go another route.

For several years I ran a pedal on the left side of my '08...

Hi Bill.

It was a long time ago, but your answer persisted in the search logs, and today it solved a problem for me. Thanks for posting what you found, and thanks to SpyderLovers for keeping it...

Once you've had black, there's no going back. ;)

Sorry that this has happened to you Ann. I hope that you come out of it with the same sense of humour you have shown here.

The bike can be...

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My 2008 SE5 has almost never blipped the the throttle when downchanging. The dealer tried replacing the blipper on two occasions, but still the problem persisted. It could be a poor...

It don't like Firefox either, Scotty. :gaah:

Pogo.

Great post Motovar. :clap:

The engineer in me finds this unsatisfactory. One reason for fitting LEDs is to reduce heat. It is normally radiated inside the lamp housings where you can't feel it....

There is a small problem with running the 15" car tyre. I first discovered it when fitting a car tyre to the back of my sidecar hauling Kawasaki. A 15" car tyre is 14.968" at the bead. A 15"...

I'm sorry to neg that Scotty. I bought my own BUDS late last year. I find it very useful for those little things like resetting sensors as well as for looking through fault codes to figure out what...

If you can't hear the click when you turn the ignition on then the blipper isn't working. There is a troubleshooting sequence for checking that in the workshop manual, but everything ends in...

I fitted a 15 mm sway bar about a month ago. It made a huge improvement to the handling. My Spyder feels more stable and sits more upright in corners.

I had had the standard front shocks jacked up...

Yep. Last week. Same place. I got the same fix as Mr Gone.

Cheers;

Pogo.

When you adjusted the belt, you 'tilted' the axle in the swing arm. That mis-aligned the rear disk slightly with the rear brake caliper, which is mounted on the swingarm.

The noise should...

That was me. Thank you Alton. I can see that I can get most of what I want this way. If my Spyder ever comes back from the shop, and if I then decide to keep her, I will take advantage of this to do...

I just had my third set replaced under warranty. I go through a set about every 10000 km. :gaah:

I'd rather see a redesigned set come out to fix the problem, but I guess having them replaced for...

I haven't tried the iridium. I'm working through a list of things that may cause the problem. I tried fitting a catch bottle in the crankcase breather.It did a great job of keeping oil out of the...

Yes, SpyderWolf, they are full depth. It is possible that they were caused by the fender supports not being properly fitted, but I thought it worth warning others. It would be disastrous if the...

Hi Nanaskids.

Again, I'm assuming that you have the SE5, the electric shift version of the Spyder.

On a 'manual' shift, you would synchronise the engine speed with the road speed by blipping...

Hi 3Willie.

It will be the front plug. Mine fails about every 5000 km (3000 mi). It is a pain to get to, too so your dealer will try everything else first.

I think the problem has to do with...

Hi guys.

I had the rear fender struts replaced on my Spyder a couple of months back. The dealer made a meal of the job, using the wrong nuts, which led me to remove the rear fender to check for...

Hi kc.

Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time at your dealer. I'm guessing that you have an SE5. My SE5 suffers from rough downshifting. It is caused by the throttle blipper not blipping...

Thanks Lamont. That was the link I was looking for. :thumbup:

I've seen one repair where a 6 mm rod was welded across the top inside the strut to stiffen it against twisting. I haven't caught up...

I'm surprised that that worked, but it kinda matches my lack of skills. How long ago did you do this? How many miles?

Pogo.

It's a possibility, Freddy, but not one I'm keen on. How does your little guard go at keeping the road crap off the back of the bike? I do a lot of distance, and I would like to leave the mud and...

I recall reading a post by Lamont a few months back saying that he was about to repair the rear fender struts where they cracked. I've been searching for that post and can't find it. :dontknow:
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The SE is supposed to blip the throttle when it downshifts. I've had an ongoing issue with mine being intermittent, and nobody being able to say definitively under what conditions it will blip, or...

Well the good news is that the mainshaft will be replaced under warranty. The bad news is that there is at least a two week wait for parts.

I guess that means that they have another two weeks to...

Hi again.

My other brain cell just fired.

For a while now Lola has been starting with a very high (2000 - 2500 RPM) idle speed. It seems worse when the weather is cool, but it isn't...

Hi Darkwilliam.

I've had a few episodes of misfiring that were at first attributed to a damaged Y pipe gasket.

On the last episode though, the gaskets had just been replaced. My mechanic said...