Bike not revving....
 

Hi,

Finnally got my bike back from the insurance company. looks ok except someone robbed the clock!!!

Anyway

it starts ok (after I optimated it overnight) but it runs a bit rough and won't rev up at all. If i move the throttle it splutters and dies.

Almost sounds like it's misfiring...

Ideas?

Where should I look to start with.

Obvious answers are also welcome as in my experience it is these at fault!

There is petrol in the tank before anyone asks :lol:

How long was it stood for, before you got it back ?

If its been stood for ages, I would wager that the fuel has gone off maybe ?

Try a fresh tank of fuel and then see if its any better. Unleaded doesnt keep well and it goes stale over time.

2 or 3 months max... didn't know it could deteriorate so fast....

thanks!


any other ideas?

I'd try that first. Might be worth taking the spark plugs out and giving them a clean.

Could also be water in the fuel, if you have carbed bike you can drain the fuel out of the carbs, might be worth doing that anyway. If you have a K3 onwards I'm not sure if you can do that though...

it's got carbs, cheers!

Sorry but someone stole your clock?

Are you going to complain about that? I sure would, even if it was a cheap casio job. :?

yeah!

bit miffed to be honest! it was only a cheapie one on the yoke, oxford one I think.

I was was just pleased that something more hadn't gone missing!

A few years ago my bike got wrecked when I binned it, once i was out of hospital I went to get it off the breakers and he was really funy with me saying it wasn't worth buying back etc. etc.

only when I got it home did i notice he had nicked loads of stuff of it! scotoiler, fairing panels etc.

was MIGHTLY annoyed, I complained and was told they must have been "lost at the sceane of the accident"

GRRRR!!!

Some breakers are just crooks!