verslagen1 wrote on 08/15/10 at 14:20:31:cruising at 40/50 should be just fine. weather you did or not, stopping for a sign shouldn't be an issue either.
backfire on shutdown tells me, your idle mixture is a bit lean, is it a poof, pow or hit the dirt KERPOW?
btw, running hot tells me your main could be lean too.
while riding, are your legs feeling real uncomfortable on the pegs?
if you got and thermometer, the kind with a probe like for sticking in meat, or go to harbor freight and get a IR thermo read the temp off the oil cover and head, just bellow the plug for the cam. then I can give you a relative reading off mine.
I think I am at 1 3/4 turns out. I did 1/4 turns when I first got her (bought with 5 turns out!
) from zero. At about 2.5 turns out I get a black sparkplug. The backfire is no poof, it's more like pow but not hit the dirt.
It doesn't seem overly hot, or hasn't, until this last month (since I cooked her the first time). Now I can noticeably tell she's hot when she shuts down. My poor baby.
I have no idea about the jets and such. It does have a custom muff so the previous owner could have tweaked them. She's my only mode of transportation atm so I'm worried about taking the carb apart.