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So my bike was running just fine until a few days ago when I dropped it at low speed in a patch of gravel on the side of the road. The bike appears to be undamaged but I had a really hard time getting it to start after the crash. I ended up fiddling with the idle adjustment knob because hey, knobs! and managed to get the bike started and after the engine warmed up it was idling around 5.5k so I turned the knob back down to about 3K and limped it home through the canyon. I left it for a few days because I've been working nonstop and now the bike will start to catch when I press the starter and then stall immediately. I managed to get it to start with full choke and the idle knob adjusted way high again, took it for a ride to warm the engine up again and it was running okay but there didn't feel like there was much power above about 6-7k rpm. I also managed to bump start it a few times going down my hill but it would stall as soon as I got to a start and giving it throttle in neutral could only keep the engine going for maybe a minute before it would stall again. Could I have damaged something in the crash? My first guess would be something in the carbs maybe got dislodged but I have no experience with engines beyond twist grip(press pedal) go fast. Did I make it worse by messing with the idle adjust knob? edit: I may have been losing power because I was running low on gas  I'll grab some more tomorrow and see whats upedit2: managed to electric start it jumping off my car and drove to the gas station, filled up but still wouldn't start. I'm almost sure its the battery after reading this since it was running great until it stopped. A battery tender seems like a good investment anyway, so i'll pick one of those up and maybe a new battery too mrking fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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