My bracket broke :(

[Carterc]

how do i un-hotwire it then? lol

what a pain in the ass a suped up bike can be!

[andyb]

Guessing there would be a switch for arming the nitrous, turning the airshifter on, compressor for the shifter, guage for pressure on air, gauge for pressure on nitrous.  Is possible to have a bottle heater but it's rare to see on bikes, usually a car thing instead. 

Bikes don't generally carry enough nitrous to last more than 2-3 passes at best, so most guys will bring multiple bottles with them to the track, and frequently a separate heating assembly.

Airshifter is usually on the horn side, nitrous on the starter button.

[SlowOldGuy]

Did I ever tell you the story about a fellow FJ'er who was riding across country and in the middle of Wyoming (??) his alternator went out on this FJ and he was stuck. Dead battery stuck. The closest Yamaha shop was ~75 miles away and they said that it would take then a week to get a alternator to him, at some totally insane price. A week, in BFE, Wyoming. The guy didn't have the money to rent a car and a uHaul trailer, let alone a hotel room.

This guy happened to find the local public library and logged on to the internet and posted a SOS on the yahoo FJ forum.
 I'll never forget the response.
We were discussing how to help him, going out to Wyoming to pick him up, etc, etc. and while this discussion was taking place one of our FJ brothers took matters into his own hands. Jon Cain simply went out to his garage and took the alternator OFF his FJ and overnight mailed it to BFE Wyoming.
Problem solved. The traveler made it home safe and sound and mailed the alternator back to Jon.

That's the type of people we have here.....That's how we roll.    

Pat,
You've got all the FJ facts correct, but that happened in Texas.  The guy came down from Colorado, bought the FJ in Houston and was riding it back to Colorado when the alternator went out.  My wife was on the way to 600 Racing in Ft. Worth to get a new alternator from them when Jon stepped up and overnighted one to the guy.

Great story and typical of this group.

DavidR.

[Pat Conlon]

Ok thanks David. I was going by memory....not too bad considering I survived the sixties. I recall we had multiple rescue attempts going that day.

Sooo... just substitute BFE Wyoming with BFE Texas...

Yea, BFE Texas works better. Can you see it? Visualize your new FJ stranded in BFE Texas, a tiny town, one stoplight and intersection with blowing dust and tumbleweeds. Forlorn, sitting inside the corner cafe looking out the fly specked window at your broken FJ,  while drinking 8 hour old coffee poured by a waitress in a grease smeared blouse who is giving you a brown toothed smile.   Yea, BFE Texas works...