Thanks for the comments so far.
Unfortunately I am not a wrench, so it's at the dealer again. I was actually riding it to a meeting last week and passed a kawasaki dealer on my way. It was running so bad, I was not comfortable riding it any further - so just dropped it off, in hopes that they can figure it out.
It has not been run in over a year, since this problem began initially. When it first started happening, I took it to my regular shop - they had it for 2 weeks and couldnt duplicate the problem, but as soon as I picked it up, it started acting up 5 miles down the road.
Now, it's been over a week at this shop and they called me today and said they rode it "several times" but couldnt duplicate the problem, so it was my V&H pipes that was causing the problems with the fuel/air mixture. Funny, especially when I've had those pipes on the bike for 8 years and never had a problem - and I thought the FI computer self-adjusts for aftermarket pipes. Anyway, I told them they werre full of $#!t and to go take it for a nice long ride. So they test-drove it again and WERE able to recreate the problem (the FI lit up and everything), but they couldnt get any code to download. So now they think it sounded like the ignition coil. It's so hard to determine hat is electrical and what is mechanical and I don't know how much faith I have in these guys so anything that I can bring to their attention would be greatly appreciated.
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