Teardown and Debug! Magura 0-5kOhm Dead Spots?

I got into a teardown of Tronbike tonight to debug an intermittent power cut-out I am experiencing under acceleration. It got really annoying tonight on the ride home and I decided to see if the throttle, 0-5kOhm resistor, had any dead-spots, because it feels very throttle related. Might be a "gaser" reaction to assume its a sticky throttle, but I tore off the fairings and tank to get at the throttle leads. At about 4kOhms in, my multimeter repeatably shows a blip down to 44Ohms. 4kOhms is like 80% throttle, lower ranges have some noise too. Anyone know if these Magura 0-5kOhm throttles are pretty bulletproof compared to the other possibilities?

I'll dig through the data log to see if I can find a pattern in the Amp cutouts with voltage dips or throttle position mis-queues. Riding I did notice Amps cutting out so I hope the sampling rate might have caught other blips.

Looking at the rear disk, I am tempted to put new pads on and call it done. OEM rotor is really pricey, and given it works well now, I imagine perfect brakes could be overkill for my 45mph rig.

For Sale, New TBM Control, Brakes Job Coming

Yes, the blog has been quiet. The bike gets out once or twice a week, the TBM gets a new feature (latest is PyGTK "notebook" tabs!). I got a quick repair overview at the shop to find the calipers are fine, but we need a new fork seal and new pads, as the current are soaked with oil. Also, a new rear rotor and pads are recommended.

With all that, I've been reading about the Telsa's progress and realized I am falling behind a curve of sorts, and need to move forward :) This means either selling what I have, or preparing for some serious upgrade.

SO its back on CL, we'll see if we can get some interest.

TBM Data Log Plots

The TBM (TronBike Meter) is getting solid enough to plot data for an entire
battery charge/recharge cycle.

• The GNUPLOT of the relevant columns versus time.
• I am using an absolute scale here, set below 400 by the Amps (in red), all other values are % or below 100.
• Notice the light blue - thats the diode temperature reading, you can see when I parked the bike, I did 3 segments for the day.
  

I need to get some hardware that will allow me to run a GPS to collect position and velocity data. Building the iPaq into the dash/bike is also on my todo list.