[singhg5]

Motorcycle Consumer News has interesting articles every month. It also has list of motorcycle recalls..HD, Kawasaki, BMW, Indian and what not.

Coming to the title. It can happen to an RE or any other motorcycle. Bike runs fine at idle, fine at low speeds, but as the throttle is opened past a certain point, engine loses power, misses and struggles to speed up.

Interesting that even BMW dealers struggle to resolve it, using shotgun approach of replace this or replace that.

The general approach to find the cause and steps taken to remedy the problem are the same as reported in this article, irrespective of the brand of motorcycle, here is thought for the day attached as pdf file.

[Grant Borden]

Singhg,

Leroy email me about may 19th that the dealer found the problem. Leroy stated the Techs read the article, did additional troubleshooting to find the problem. If memory serves me correctly it was a defective coil.

Grant

[dginfw]

It can -and does- happen to lots of modern bikes and cars. Drivability issues are the hardest to troubleshoot.  I dont envy the techs that have to find the problem on a modern v8 or v12 motor

[Mr.Mazza]

It can -and does- happen to lots of modern bikes and cars. Drivability issues are the hardest to troubleshoot.  I dont envy the techs that have to find the problem on a modern v8 or v12 motor

I can tell ya, even with $10,000 programs to talk to the cars, down to how they are feeling about tomorrow.
It takes forever, far cry from carby dizzy old engines, where it was coil, carb or compression generally, a modern BMW V8 has about 8 things to tell the ECU things so it decides to tell a coil pack on one of the eight cylinders to fire now...