Keith, I like thinking out loud cos I find it helps to nut things out. After all, aren't we all thinking out loud when we getbon here???
Anyway, something tells me your onto something. How's that for thinking out loud hey?

Why I think your "thinking out loud" hypothesis has substance is because we seemed to have ruled out electrical issues. I'm not saying completely ruled though. Get to the frigging point Stacka I here ha ha
Ok, the time before last when my bike just shut down, I was on a trip and my fuel was getting low. Now it makes sense to me the chances of the pet ******'s filter becoming shutj off with a something'in the fuel would be much more possible when the said "whatever it is" is sitting low and not moving around say for instance when the tank's been refilled.
Similarly, the last time it happened I was also getting low in juice. I know we may be hoping a bit here but stranger things have happened I'm sure.
How about I just put this one to bed and check it out and see? It's no skin off my nose.
The next thing is how. Without having done it or looked at the manual for instructions, can anyone who has cleaned out the tank's fuel ******'s mesh filter, tell me what to do or do I just undo the petcock's screws and follow my nose. I think if that's the case, the more interesting part would be making sure it was sealed up properly with no leaks.
Regardless, for some reason I'm thinking we may be onto something here but then again it may just wishful (notice it's not out loud this time

) thinking.
Time for bed now but how good would it be if I found some evidence pointing to some piece of fuel crud being the culprit hey???