18-12-16, 11:05 AM
She started!!
First thing this morning, no choke and slowly opened the throttle whilst pushing the start button, took 3 attempts but got there in the end.
Thanks Jules-C for the top tip.
Seems as if she was flooded, clouds of white smoke and strong smell of petrol that cleared after about a minute.
I still have a question though, she has always need the choke to start. When i started her today she idled at 2500 rpm, like when i went for a ride last week, why has the idle speed changed from 1200 to 2500 rpm with seemingly no input from me?
My theory; the bike has been sat for a long while before i bought it, old fuel old gunged up etc. I put several tanks of premium fuel and fuel additive and do about 400 miles, everything is now freed up and clean, might need to readjust the idle speed to allow for this. Any thoughts.
Massive thank you to all who contributed and those who took the time to read through all the posts
Chris
First thing this morning, no choke and slowly opened the throttle whilst pushing the start button, took 3 attempts but got there in the end.
Thanks Jules-C for the top tip.
Seems as if she was flooded, clouds of white smoke and strong smell of petrol that cleared after about a minute.
I still have a question though, she has always need the choke to start. When i started her today she idled at 2500 rpm, like when i went for a ride last week, why has the idle speed changed from 1200 to 2500 rpm with seemingly no input from me?
My theory; the bike has been sat for a long while before i bought it, old fuel old gunged up etc. I put several tanks of premium fuel and fuel additive and do about 400 miles, everything is now freed up and clean, might need to readjust the idle speed to allow for this. Any thoughts.
Massive thank you to all who contributed and those who took the time to read through all the posts
Chris