Coming back from a 60 mile, almost non-stop ride yesterday when the bike started bucking, farting huge backfires and shutting down. This happened when I hit traffic at slower speeds and a couple of lights. Was fine during the non-stop run, but wouldn't hold an idle at traffic lights, had to hold the throttle to keep from stalling. switched the petcock to Prime, no help. Have almost 1/2 tank of gas, so that's ruled out
Got home and noticed a huge amount of exhaust soot on the case just in front of the left front peg. I'll be looking at the exhaust header bolts tomorrow when I have the day off, and also examining the exhaust system from head back to the Trapp.
But really, I think my good luck streak with this bike may be at an end. My guess is exhaust valve issue. But, my bike did get knocked over last week. Best hope is that something got knocked out of place causing the leak
Any opinions greatly appreciated.