So, how long are you letting it idle?
You might run some SeaFoam  through it.
I have to adjust the idle up if it's cold.
When it's not cold, it starts fine, but the 1/2 choke gets the idle speed up. I might hafta pay attention and keep the gas on a tad.
But I know the penalty for a low idle and too much kickstand idling time.

When the temperature is cold and the humidity is really high, I have the same problem.  The only solution I've found is to keep my hand on the throttle, and hold it at a high enough speed until it warms up.  As for 15 minutes idling, you may want to rethink that unless you have some sort of forced air flow on the engine.

Sorry guys, I thought I was clear in discribing the issue...
Let me try again  

I start the bike on choke first thing in the morning.
She fires up fine.
I let it idle for 30 seconds or so, while I put my gloves on, and do a once over on gear, etc.
I take off, ride a few minutes, maybe 5, and push it back in.
Running good and the Harley's get out of my way  
Get to the ferry, load, dismount, and go into the cabin to warm up.
Get to destination, that takes about 15 minutes, mount, but have to choke again to keep the idle up, etc.
I just don't remember having to go to cold starting procedure after only 15 minutes of cooling down before....
I would never let this thing idle for 15 minutes.

Does that clear things up?

Uh....
Since you brought up the witch and teets, thought I inadvertently posted on the crazy board  
And to further clarify, ferries up here are boats  

I have ridden more times this winter in snow and 20's than I can ever recall.
Yesterday the wind was so bad the captain made us sit on our bikes to keep them from falling over.
It was strange, like the system generating the wind was right upon us, as it would go from dead calm, to 50mph, in a wink of the eye.
The water was not all that rough either.
Made it extremely hard to control his ship, as he would be leaning into the wind, then nothing, and he'd have to bring the ship back.
Normally, like a plane taking off, you have more control going into the wind, but he gave up, ran a bit up past the dock, and surfed the wind down into the landing....
Did a great job too, hardly a bump when he put her up to the thingy!

Now that you mention witches ferries and thingies all in the same post... I can see where you could be confused.  

My worst case of sea sickness... during a hurricane on a cruse ship rounding nova scotia... even the captain was sick.

verslagen1 wrote on 03/11/17 at 12:24:12:


I like navigating life confused....
It's almost as good as blaming others and being a victim  

I have never been sea sick, and I've been in, around, on, boats my whole life.
I've been scared tho, thought a 65 footer I was on would pitch over, as we tried to turn around in weather, that was scary.
I was off Mexico on a 100 footer, that was rocking so bad for almost three days, I couldn't sleep in my bunk, even using pillows to keep me from rolling.
I was starting to get sleep deprivation, that was bad...
Finally got behind an island, was sleeping before my head hit the pillows  

Hey, did I just jack my own thread?  

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/11/17 at 12:42:21:


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