BrokeAss
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I build bobbers and cafes for a living, and flip bikes on the side, probably 50 or more units over the past few years, and a lot of my flips were bikes "running when I parked it" and in Spring "will crank but won't start now". Additionally, I have four personal motorcycles and four more belonging to my kids. For years I've just treated the fuel (SeaFoam or StarTron), run them for ten minutes, topped off the tank and took the battery indoors on a tender. Last year I decided to drain the bowls on my Ninja 500 and was surprised come Spring when the carbs leaked fuel like a sieve. There are o-rings on the pipe that connects the two carbs for fuel delivery and they'd shrank from lack of contact with petrol. I thought I'd have to tear into them but decided to leave the petcock on in the driveway and let it leak, see what happened. After a couple days it "healed" itself and we rode it all year no trouble.
My advice, for whatever it's worth...add a bottle of StarTron, fill the tank with premium, leave the petcock ON, and tender the battery in or out of the bike. If it's going to sit for a year or more, fog the cylinder and Saran Wrap the muffler opening. I don't advise draining the carb unless you want to deal with shrunken parts come Spring, if you've treated the fuel properly you won't have a bunch of gummy varnish but for good measure you can drain what's in the bowl just before trying to start it the first time.
YRMV...
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