Stranded

Had a new 'first' experience today, that of the throttle cable snapping on my yet-to-be-3-yrs-old SD. One minute punting along chasing what looked like a RC8 (judging by the rear light), the next minute coasting to a halt despite 100% throttle fully open!

I took the assembly apart at the side of the road (god the KTM toolkit is comprehensive) and voila, one corroded, frayed (in 2 places) and broken throttle cable.

Now replacing both pull and return cables at £26each + labour. Bloody rubbish. Specially on a bike this [not] old. (Good on Privilege breakdown service though - arrived in 25mins to get me home!)

Not my week. Monday I found a sprocket nut had worked it's way loose and gouged a huge mark out of my swingarm. Nice. Still, got to ride the 10R instead today - gotta love Japanese fueling don't ya! Sooooooooooo smooth.

Sigh.

So, maybe 2 weeks ago I noticed a surge/buck sensation when riding, did not matter if it was cruising at steady throttle, or getting on it or what. Felt like it was out of gas....even though not. Very heavy on/off. The more you are in it when it happens, the worse it is. So, Friday I am heading home from work when this happens again, except this time it is worst than ever, and eventually got worse and worse. I am on the interstate, so as I am trying to add throttle to maintain speed, it just wont. Eventually pull in the clutch, engine stalls and I pull over. My first thought is , damn 2 weeks ago I should have cleaned the big grey connector right???? Well shit, can it cause it this bad? Soooo anyway. I get the bike home and tonight hook up tune ecu..... found code p0335. Crankshaft position circuit malfunction. Ok. First thought, bad sensor, not wiring or ecu right? Have anyone else had a bad crank sensor? ? And run into this type of simptom?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16536&p=192152#p192152 - don't know what the outcome was though - have had to replace the sensor on other KTMs but not the SDR as yet.

Where is this sensor located?

As per the Repair Manual pages referred to in the previous thread

Great. Thanks. A lot.