For the OP if your Roadie is so equipped, swap the ignition relay and system relay (same relay) and check for spark. Forgot you don't have the gas tank on nor connected for fuel or electronically. Wonder if the ECM has to "see" an active fuel system?

 

Update: No matter how many times I removed and replaced the crank position sensor, it wasn't seated fully until I tapped it (ever so gently) with a mallet. Suddenly, spark on both sides. Sheesh!

Thanks for all of the tips. I'll have lots more to ask before I'm done. Next stop - rebuilding the fuel pump.

 

Not familiar with your model, but on the older bikes you have to swap the old pins to the new pins in the connector. When you replaced the CPS did you have to remove the pins from the old sensor and put the new pins in the connector? Did you put them in the correct position?

 

Just an fyi on how the system phases. The CKP is used to detect the slowdown of the flywheel on the compression stroke. There are two compression strokes (front and rear), so it also needs to know which cylinder is which. There is a missing tooth on the flywheel that tells the ECM which cylinder is coming up. This is how it knows phase and when to fire injectors and coil without a cam position sensor. This is why they won't spark with plugs out or when people have easy start cams AND compression releases. This is all input from CKP prior to starting. These are single fire systems. Dual fire (aka wasted spark) simply throw a spark each time the cylinder is approaching TDC. One will be used to ignite, the other is "wasted" because it's occurring on an exhaust stroke.

The ION sense is used when the engine is running and detects combustion quality using the plugs/wires/coil.