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@VidGameKing you sure riled up the natives.
Excellent advice coming from all corners of the globe here.
First, let me dissuade of the notion that we salt in Oregon. We do not. Here in the Willamette Valley south of Portland (Beaverton is a Portland suburb) we barely have snowplows! Same in Washington state. Having moved here from Vermont where they salt the roads like the rim of a margarita glass, it's refreshing to see so many pristine vintage daily drivers on the roads. So if you have corrosion, it's not from the road maintenance up here.
Sadly, my 90k mi 1100 hasn't seen many miles since I got my 1300 in 2020. I have the bookends of the ST line. A first year, one owner (me!) black 1991 ST1100 and a pristine, 3rd owner 2012 ST1300 I shipped to Oregon from North Carolina with 3,600 (yes, 3,600, not 36,000!) miles on it. I suspect the first owner stuffed something, or things, into the tail section under the seat and abraded some wires causing an intermittent stalling problem which his mechanic failed to diagnose. Traded it to a different dealer in Greensboro where the second owner had a similar experience - their mechanics missed it. I found the bike on Craiglist and had a couple friends in Raleigh act as my agents for the purchase. Carl is one of the most persnickety, detail oriented people I know and within five minutes found the worn wires along with a 'blemish' in the tank which I dare anyone on this forum to locate. During the ride home from the freight depot I had it stall at a stop a couple times, chalking it up to my inexperience with the clutch. After arriving home I covered the wires with heat shrink tubing and have racked up about 22k trouble free miles, less a failed speedo sensor while at NEW-STOC 23.
As a first edition of the model I suffered a failure of the 28W alternator. I replaced it with the same, as it occurred before the first refresh that introduced the 40W update and the clever minds here and on earlier STOC forums had come up with a retrofit kit for the earlier models. Should it fail again before it leaves my stable that's an upgrade I'll make. As a 2001, yours won't suffer this same failure for this reason.
I also suffered the main fuse failure but didn't know about the red wire fix so I replaced the whole wiring harness with one from fleabay. I know better now, but that did allow me to be the knight in shining armor for another member here that was in need of a wiring harness for their 1100.
As you've already discovered, you've found the greatest collection of ST enthusiasts on the planet. And if this group can't solve it, they'll certainly have an opinion!!
Good luck. Tom
P.S. - Should you ever find yourself in the Portland area, make a point to visit the likely birthplace of your bike, Bob Lanphere's Beaverton Motorcycles. The dealership is a literal motorcycle museum. Unfortunately all of those bikes are on platforms just below the ceiling! Only the boring new and used ones for sale are at ground level.
From sales to maintenance, Beaverton Motorcycles is the premier destination for all of your powersports needs. See why Portland-area riders choose us.
www.beavertonmotorcycles.com
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