I seldom turn the petcock to the "off" position on my '02 BA after running it, and for that matter(not that Mark mentioned it here, and thus I'm not accusing him of the following)I never ever have attempted to "prime" a start by twisting the throttle a few times before hitting the starter button either(and as most of us know is a "no-no") And so I have to wonder what caused the backfire and this subsequent and unfortunate cracking of the starter brace section of his lower case.
I know this won't be the first instance of this happening to someone's BA/Speedy around here, and seems to primarily be or at least limited to models around the '05 vintage of our machines for some reason...if I'm not mistaken.
