Does anyone take JK Rowling seriously?

And don't you go a' picking on Routy or Veslagen, they can replace their vac hoses every year and rebuild their diaphragms periodically until the cows come home -- it's their bike after all.

And to Verslagen's point it is cheap and easy for us to say "I told you so" on an easy win scenario like a vac petcock failure.   The odds are strongly in our favor after all .....

We need Routy to keep on hanging in there for the vac petcock, the fun stops when he gives up and quits on us !!!


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Now, if we were gonna put together a "List of Things That Tell You It's Mebbe Raptor Time" what would that list look like?

(copy the list over and add your item at the bottom of the list)


1)  Your bike acts like it is running out of gas when you are going over 55 mph and then when you get to the pump you can't put in 2 full gallons of gasoline.

2)  When you get a reserve situation and roll the vac petcock toggle to Reserve, the bike continues to stumble for nearly a minute before slowly picking up some power and speed as you struggle to get to a gas station.

3)  You get all sorts of abrupt indications your carburetor is dirty or your jetting suddenly went off (and you haven't changed your exhaust system or air filter system).   Especially applies if SeaFoam, etc has NO EFFECT on your "carburetor issues" whatsoever when you try it.

4)  You smell gasoline either coming from your airbox or from your oil fill port when you unscrew it because you suspect you have one of the above going on and "it may be Raptor time".