Carb on yesterday late afternoon, just as I fired it up and got it out of the shed, it started DUMPING rain!!
So needless to say I was a little bit anxious to wake up and ride today. This morning it fired right up, wired, NO CHOKE, but it stayed in the low 60's overnight. Took it out "around the block" about 34 miles, rural roads, in town, open roads for WOT. great pull up to 83mph, still gaining, but road was getting short, not conditions for this speed.
So all in all it must've been sheer happenstance that it all came to a head at once like this here at home, and not on the road while on a roadtrip!!
My evaluation... or hypothesis is.
I never used to turn the Raptor petcock off when bike sat, something kept the needle from seating, allowing the float bowl to overfill, introducing raw gas into my air cleaner box, thus contaminating crankcase oil enough to always give a "rich" fuel mixture.
I'm glad it all went dow like it did tho!
Long story short... madmike is back in the wind!👍
Oh yeah, NO online filter😜
Michael