They (the local scumbag rodent pencil-neck excuses for kids that seem to infest where I live) shorted out the ignition wires to try to hot wire it, and blew the CDI.. I still have the unit, and it's a nice paperweight, but thats about its only use to me now..
I don't currently have the sidestand switch issues.. but I realised the importance of it when I had some problems with the bike in Trieste (a truly dead boring place to be stuck, in my humble opinion!). That time, I cleaned everything up, let it dry, inspected and re-fitted the switches, and my prob disappeared. Was probably just a loose connection on the side stand switch, i think.
I bought a non-runner Tengai just for parts, and it cost me 307 GBP on ebay.. if just the CDI worked, it pretty much would have paid for itself.. In the end, because I got the Ignitech CDI on the web, I didn't need to cannibalise the Tengai, so I got it running instead.. Some people would call that conniving to get a second bike, but I call it chance..
Never a truer word.. most people ignore whats in their own back yard. I'm guilty of that too.
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