| Author | Message | ||
     Colin |
My misses dosen't like me. My 99 M2 Cyclone dosn't work and I keep nicking her car. The bike fires up OK but dosen't rev fully on choke. When I try to ride off, it bogs down and stalls/backfires - usually at 6.am - my neighbours don't like me either. I put too much oil in it recently (3 quarts instead of 2) and I have just put an additive in the petrol to overcome carb icing. The bike ran quite nicely afterwards (60 miles of swinging Cheshire lanes) but the following day it packed up. Could these have contrbuted to the problem? So far I have changed the plugs (they were sooty), cleaned the air filter (K&N - was oily but no worse than usual)and added more fuel to dilute the additive. I'm going to clean the carb tonight (no sex until she gets her car back)and check out the VOE switch. Any other suggestions? | ||
| Spiderman |
Make sure all saftey switches are working properly. | ||
| Court |
Colin: I'd suggest jump starting.......perhaps a good Merlot. | ||
| Newfie_Buell |
Check your petrol, I once had a bad tank of fuel and all I could figure was that it was contaminated with water. The bike would start ok then would backfire, spit, sputter and knock. I changed the fuel to a different brand, drained the carb and about 15km later as I was riding to the local dealer the damm thing sputtered to life and took off like a bat out of hell. When I got to the dealer I explained what I did and they agreed that it must have been the contaminated fuel. | ||
| Libnosis |
Mine was doing the same thing last week. I changed the plugs, put it on reserve (because it had half a tank and I wanted to be sure), and bypassed the kickstand switch. I think the kickstand switch was the problem. It's running like a champ now. Good luck. | ||
| Colin |
Thanks for the suggestions. I have now cleaned the carb, drained some (more) oil and ran the bike for a minute or two on new fuel with no effect. The switches are next followed by ditching the additive enriched fuel. After that, I guess I'll check the timing and compression. Incidentally, I was disappointed to encounter cheesey-drive screws retaining the float bowl. They had already been bodged (presumably by my dealer) and needed a combination of impact driver and mole grips to extract. I haven't seen these since my jap riding days in the 80's. They shall be replaced with some nifty stainless steel socket head cap screws methinks. | ||
| Bomber |
Colin . . .why would one WANT to grip a mole? they're kinda unpleasant looking on this side of the big water | ||
| Colin |
Indeed. On the other hand, I have heard it said that some folk like to grip sheep - I can't imagine what type of tool you would need for that! Each to his own I guess. | ||
| Colin |
In conclusion - turns out it was the sidestand switch causing the problem. I was surprised that the failure of the switch was so subtle - it certainly was not on my list of things to look at. Anyway, bike's happy, wife's happy, I'm happy - many thanks to you all for your assistance. | ||
| Newfie_Buell |
The main thing here is that the wife is happy, because if she is not then that could seriously impact your riding. Good to hear it was such a minor problem. |
