Leave the hose attatched to the carb. Find something that you can stick in the other end - little bolt, golf tee, anything that you can push in there to plug the hose that wont fall out; run the hose up to the frame under the tank and secure it with a cable tie. Those little rubber plugs that they sell at auto stores are garbage. They wont last a year.

Yup, those are the plugs. The assortment I bought at the local Auto Zone was about the same price as that Amazon kit except that it only had ten plugs in it, only two of which actually fit on the carb. Neither was impervious to the fumes coming from the nipple on the carb and each deteriorated within a few months. I'm sure that you can find plugs that are fuel safe somewhere but you're not getting eighty of them for seven bucks.

After tossing the second of the ones that I bought I decided to try another approach - the one I suggested.

I still had the OEM petcock with the OEM hose still on it so I stuck it back on the carb and plugged the end with a brass machine screw that I had in my junk harware can. That hose was put on my bike by Suzuki in 2006 and it's still in perfect condition so it is apparently pretty resistant to petroleum fumes. If I remember correctly I put the Raptor petc*ck on in 2013 so that hose with the brass screw in the end has been fine for eleven years.

As for looking "unprofessional" the bike looks exactly like it did originaly except that the end of the hose with the plug in it now dissapears up under the tank instead of being attatched to the petcock.

No need for apology.

"ones that have 1-2” of hose coming off the nipple with a screw or golf tee stuck in it that hurt my eyes and scream unprofessional"

I agree 100% with that.