Well it's not fixed yet. After they drained the tank yesterday and got the water and bad gas out I was assured that everything was fine.

This morning on the way to work it cut out and died 3 times. Slowed down to make a turn and it died. Didn't want to start back up. Next stop sign died again. Stop sign after that I kept the throttle open so it wouldn't die. Final stop sign died. The first time it died this morning it actually died before I made the turn. Just quit as I started to slow so I coasted through the turn and stopped.

Gas isn't going where it's supposed to obviously. Sound like carb to you guys? It did this yesterday on the way to work before we got the bad gas out. When I told the mechanic he said 'no it didn't. It's your driving.' Funny how it was running fine before I took it in for supposed pre trip service.

  Did you ever try seafoam in the gas

 Walmart and most auto supplies here sell seaform

I had filled it up just prior to taking it in last week. Had 30 miles on the tank. There was water in the bowl. So the assumption was it was bad gas, drain the tank, clean it out and use new gas. They did that last night. Rode it home fine. It started fine this morning. It was just about 2 miles down the road when it started cutting out.

I thought the pre trip service was going to include cleaning the carb, checking the valves etc but all they did was do a basic check and change the oil. ANd when they tried to put the vista cruise on they snapped the throttle tube.

I know there are no coincidences but I'm not happy.

Did you try prime?
Vac hose connected properly?
Vent hoses connected properly?

I'm going to put in 2 more cents worth. As I'm just trying to help! So I'm going to throw this in also

But,didnt SW have a problem with her bike dying off and on, and it was a pinched cable or something.

Does anyone remember that?

I remember parts of it,but not all of it. Was simple to fix though.

(Just thinking that the problem could actually be two different problems instead of just one)

   No put some in right away then run it,then over night it will be working to clean up stuff,then drive tomorrow ,If you know how to take off fuel bowl take it off put 1/2 ounce in fuel bowl  and put it back on it will give it a strong mix.

I've never tried it to see what would happen...  If they screwed around with the idle air/fuel mixture, could it be running so lean that it won't run?  What happens when you shut that screw all the way down and leave it for awhile?  I've only ever done that with the engine off prior to counting turns out when tuning the carb.

I'm just thinking that if it happened "overnight", and the new gas is presumably good, then it isn't likely to be varnish and crud so much as something the mechanic did.  Seafoam sure won't hurt, but I think I'd find out where that screw is set.

Maybe I'm way off, but isn't "running waaaay to lean" another way of saying "fuel starvation?"