Carb flooding question

[motoman]

A big +1 on Ray's last statement!

[mschor]

Yes, all new fluids in the bike. It seems to be getting hot too fast, but I haven't had a running bike in a long time so just my intuition telling me that. All four pipes heating evenly

[DiverRay]

My '80 I would start it up from cold, wait at most 30 seconds to start riding, putting the enritcher to the first stop, and all the way off within 2 minutes. It would still not be 100% until about 5 minutes, but after that, look out!

[mschor]

Ok, I'll keep an eye on the oil, and idle it minimally. I guess these air cooled 4's aren't suited much for traffic. Just contacted TC about a fuse box

[DiverRay]

I guess these air cooled 4's aren't suited much for traffic.

Yeah, they really don't like the stop and go. That is the one good thing about California, "Lane Sharing" as the law calls it, splitting lanes as it's know by the rest of the country, and the rest of the world....

[Bonz]

I will beg to differ that these bikes don't handle stop and go very well! Ask anyone who attended the Colorado rally the past two times and waited in line to get through the gate to ride the Pikes Peak Highway up to 14,114 feet.

I/they have never seen bikes get that hot sitting in the line, even in lifetimes of living in the HOT Midwest. Smoke began wafting up from the cylinder fins of some bikes as dust and stuff got so hot. Once moving it got better, but it was a hot ride going up hill at slow speed with less dense air flowing to cool the bikes.

Everyone got home just fine with nothing worse for the wear, other than our brains from stressing over it in the moment.

These bikes are crazy well-engineered.

[mschor]

Good to hear!

[motoman]

I will beg to differ that these bikes don't handle stop and go very well! Ask anyone who attended the Colorado rally the past two times and waited in line to get through the gate to ride the Pikes Peak Highway up to 14,114 feet.

I/they have never seen bikes get that hot sitting in the line, even in lifetimes of living in the HOT Midwest. Smoke began wafting up from the cylinder fins of some bikes as dust and stuff got so hot. Once moving it got better, but it was a hot ride going up hill at slow speed with less dense air flowing to cool the bikes.

Everyone got home just fine with nothing worse for the wear, other than our brains from stressing over it in the moment.

These bikes are crazy well-engineered.

In reference to first statement........these bikes just do not do any TWO of the THREE functions very well, at the SAME time.

[mschor]

Petcock towers and reserve

Almost got the brakes back together, waiting to have the fitting at the rear master bent a little to fit the line in. The screens are a little torn on the petcock towers, but they'll still work fine for keeping reserve functional, right? I have in line filters.