Magneto!
I just talked to George at Uptite Husqvarna. He says the computer is telling him the magneto is in shipping. He's as skeptical as I am about how much to belive what a computer says, but if it really is on it's way, the Husqvarna might be running again soon. It would make me very, very happy, since it would also mean I can start thinking about motard racing and dirt riding again. It's the perfect Swiss Army knife of bikes, although it's hardly perfect for anything. I sure hope I haven't lost anything critical in the long wait.
On an unrelated note, I spend about half the day yesterday reprepping the SV's paint where it wrinkled up badly. It's still misbehaving in spots, but I don't know why. I guess it has to be sanded down once again, reprimed once again, and then shot. One of these days, I'm going to be an outstanding rattlecan bodyman. For the time being, it's not happening yet. I have decided rattle can cheapness is preferable to spending money, especially if I can get it to eventually turn out OK. There was some pretty awful looking paint at the track last weekend, so I'm not going to have the ugliest bike in the paddock, no matter how ratty it is. It's not going to be ratty at all if I can help it. Rattiness is my leather's job now.
One last thing I have come to understand. The reason I didn't get along with the Gixxer was most likely a tweaked swingarm. It would fall into left handers but resist right handers. Once I dropped the front down far enough to get it to turn right, the front got really sketchy turning left. It felt like riding on a bucket of greased ball bearings to me, and another (really fast and slightly nuts) guy rode it and said he noticed it's resistance to right turns as well. He's crashed everything he ever touched, so nothing bothers him somehow. It treated him OK, but he could understand why I had problems with it. It's kind of nice to find out the problems I had all season last year weren't entirely due to bone-headedness!