{"id":990,"date":"2010-05-07T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-05-07T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T03:06:17","slug":"an-overdue-thank-you-to-haakon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/an-overdue-thank-you-to-haakon\/","title":{"rendered":"An overdue thank you to Haakon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realized I have been negligent in making a thank you here to a new friend who has been helping me with a project.<\/p>\n

When Jean-Francois purchased his R1200GSA last June there were all these neat documents available for the care of that motorcycle. One in particular caught my interest because it seemed like such a good idea.<\/p>\n

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How cool is that? All the electrical parts identified with where they are located on the motorcycle. Okay — there are some<\/p>\n

This is what BMW produced for the F650GS<\/p>\n

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Anybody other than me notice a slight difference between the two documents?<\/p>\n

When my motorcycle stopped running in Brownwood, TX on the way to Big Bend National Park in March I called the dealer asking for help in diagnosing what had happened. I was told to call roadside assistance and have it towed to the nearest dealer. This is not an acceptable solution for me.<\/p>\n

When I returned home I posted on the Chain Gang Forum on F650.com asking for steps in diagnosing why a motorcycle would stop running. How to determine if it was spark, fuel, or air and then trace it to the source of the failure.<\/p>\n

Haakon (his post name — I don’t know if it’s his real name) responded to that post more than one time all the way from Norway. I contacted him directly and asked how he’d feel about helping me add labels to the above image and he’s been working with me since on that project that has now expanded to other things like referencing the pages in the repair manual . This is what Haakon and I have come up with so far (it’s a work in progress we plan to complete when I get back from the ride to California).<\/p>\n

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I ask again — how cool is that?<\/p>\n

My plan is to print both the left and ride side images with labels and carry with me on the motorcycle. I always carry my laptop with the repair manual (I’ll also have backups of these images), so hopefully the combination of the two will help me solve problems that come up. We also plan to share it with the members of the F650 forum.<\/p>\n

Bottom line — Thank you Haakon<\/strong><\/em> for being so willing, so helpful, and so fun with this project. I wouldn’t have gotten much of anywhere on it without your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realized I have been negligent in making a thank you here to a new friend who has been helping me with a project. When Jean-Francois purchased his R1200GSA last June there were all these neat documents available for the care of that motorcycle. One in particular caught my interest because it seemed like such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}