Yes I agree with Scoobs, turn up your idle and see if it makes a difference. 1500rpm is a good starting point and then see if you can get away with a little less - different bikes will behave slightly differently largely because the carbs will have slightly different levels of tune/sync.


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fist day i rode my bike it was stalling coming up to jucntions and clutch in stuff had my tick over set to 1000-1100

this is too low its now set at 1300 and happy :D

IIRC mine's at about 1300 but I'll up it to 1500 for until it's a bit warmer.
I'll let you know how I get on..
Cheers folks!

Someone should design a carb-heat system like there is on piston aircraft to redirect some of the engine heat to melt any ice.

I remember when I was doing my pilot training I suffered an EFATO (Engine Failure After Takeoff) in a PA-28 due to carb icing in the middle of summer. The dewpoint depression was about 10 degrees C at a temperature of approximately 18 degrees C - prime conditions for icing. Fortunately I landed back onto the same runway.

Now that I fly the bigger type of silver birds - all we have to worry about is bird strikes and terrorists. ;)


I suppose one other way of reducing carb icing would be to lean the mixture - as an over rich engine means the fuel acts more as a coolant which increases the chance of ice. From what I've read the carbed SV is slightly over rich - maybe this is for longevity and cooling reasons?

-waves as he tootles off into the distance - on his 'orrible pointy" bike ...............with FI ;-)

Smug git :D

Mwahahaha I have a pointy devils bike as well....

Sadly.. the only thing freezing up in this weather are my nads

cARB iCICNG
 

Dont all the carburrated bikes (SVs) have carb heaters, little brass nipple in the bottom of the float chamber from memory and a thermostat in ther LHS wiring loom??????

Yes but they don't seem to work too well.


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My bike has been doing the exact same thing since it became really cold, I even had my throttle freeze open whilst going to work one freezing morning which was frigging nasty, so I tried some fuel additive to stop carb icing and that was problem fixed straight away. I use some stuff from halfords called " Dry Fuel" , comes in a purple bottle , costs about £5 and does two tankfuls.