HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Oh Gawd, youre such a kiss ass. Of course the issues are related. The crappy running issue is most likely not a mechanical issue, such as valves, gears, fuel, or something unrelated to the electrics. It sounds electrical, and now the bike is doing more weird electrical shit. Ross, you're either gonna have to chase this down yourself or take it to a dealer and hope its something Yamaha should have addressed in the recall and taken responsibility for.Damn Ross... I feel for ya an agree. I don't think these two are related. The new stuff sounds spider related.
Best of luck man.
I could pull stuff apart and get to the spiders, but beyond that, it'd have to go to a dealer. Good luck.