[The bike just died for no reason today]

I have a 07 RSV with 37000 on and mine has quit twice. The first time was at 20000 miles and I assumed that it was the filter so I changed it out. (man what a pain in the butt that was) . The secound time it quit I removed the left battery cover and the pump was so hot it almost burnt my hand. After some bumping and backwashing I got it to work again. My dealer has a new one on order along with a pump relay and a new filter, all under warrenty.

[backfire]

I have a 2007 RSV that does the same thing. I found that any gas with ethanol in it will make my bike backfire. The only other thing I found was to be sure that your idle rpm is not to low. I can't answer as to why this happens but it does.