reliability
Posted: March 5th, 2009, 2:16 pm
The last time I rode my bike, It was a 25 mile round trip to the track which I rode the 500 to. I also busted some teeth out and probably got a concussion there when I decided to leave. For some reason i couldn't get the thing over 50mph on the way home and it was running like shit in the upper rpms that i needed for highway speeds. Since I had just changed the jetting for colder weather, I figured the main fell out or something.
Well i was getting my bike ready for the spring the other day and decided to fire it up. I kicked it about 20 times before I realized that something was wrong. If it doesn't fire in 3, something is very wrong. Well I walked around the thing and noticed the muffler had a solid dirt plug in it. Once I dug that out and put the plug boot on, It fired first kick. So how bout that? I rode the thing for 12 miles with the exhaust completely blocked. The only exhaust escape would have been through the rubber seal thing that goes over the stinger/silencer tubes that got blown out.
Well i was getting my bike ready for the spring the other day and decided to fire it up. I kicked it about 20 times before I realized that something was wrong. If it doesn't fire in 3, something is very wrong. Well I walked around the thing and noticed the muffler had a solid dirt plug in it. Once I dug that out and put the plug boot on, It fired first kick. So how bout that? I rode the thing for 12 miles with the exhaust completely blocked. The only exhaust escape would have been through the rubber seal thing that goes over the stinger/silencer tubes that got blown out.