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- Jan 15, 2009
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When cold (winter), my 1974 Commando 850 starts on 2 kicks with full choke. If I have been riding, and I shut it off for a few minutes (to fill up or to talk to someone), it restarts beautiflly with about 1/2 a kick. However, there is this in-between time period if the bike has been sitting for more than about 30 minutes where it takes a ton of throttle and a ton of kicks (at least 10!!!) to get it restarted. And even then, once started, I have to keep it on a faster idle manually with the throttle or it will die. No amount of choke in warm weather makes starting any easier so i just leave the choke alone in those conditions. It's been a very frusterating and sweaty proposition to say the least.
I'm running a single Mikuni and a Pazon ignition, and other than this problem, it runs beautifully.
Any ideas? Thank you.
Martin
I'm running a single Mikuni and a Pazon ignition, and other than this problem, it runs beautifully.
Any ideas? Thank you.
Martin