Great day with one hiccup
Weather got more than nice enough for bike riding. Needed to get insurance on the 650, so this morning I got on the BMW and rode to my insurance agent to get insurance. First real ride on the BMr. Last fall I had it apart for service, rebuilt brakes, carbs, new tires, pulled trans to lube splines etc. Got insurance for the 650, BMr ran so well instead of a 25 mile ride it ended up being 50.
Came home friend was here shot the bull a bit with him. He left. Time for the XS2. She fired right up, headed for gas station. Ran erratic, missing, needed choke on. What's going on. Got to gas station and put in 2 1/2 gallons of gas. Problem solved, low fuel level in carbs caused by low fuel level in tank.
Needed to be on reserve. With a full tank a different bike.
Decided to go for a longer test ride. Got out of town on 2 lane and she ran
Great. Rode 18 miles to a buddy's house and it ran better than I remember it. Never had it much over 4 grand. But she pulls strong with no hesitations. Idle could be better but you always have to play with that. Less vibrations than I remember, nothing in the handle bars very little in the foot pegs. Handles better than it ever did (fixing broken frame had to help). Shot the sh@t with him for 45 minuets or so and headed for home. Falling more and more with love with it every mile. Got into town came to a intersection with a traffic light and had to stop for the red. Light turned green went to leave and bike died. Wham just like you shut the kill switch off. Wouldn't restart, e-start worked fine. Cars behind me so I peddled to the side of the road. Still no start. After a minuet I got a slight backfire, next try it started. Went to take off, died again. It finally restarted and kept running. Got going and headed for home. Died a couple more times, usually when stopped. When stopped I would try and keep idle at 1500. One time it died when I was running about 20mph. Made it home.
Now I have figure out what is wrong. Gut feeling is it's electrical. Odds of both carbs running out of fuel at same time is slight. I'm running a PAMCO with e-advance. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's good. But I'm not going to condemn it right now, it could be a lot of things. My new gas tank is not perfect inside, it looked OK to me.
Tomorrow I'll check voltage going to the coil and PAMCO. I tested volt drop through the system when I rewired the bike but it did not have the load of the coil at that time. If that checks OK I'll check fuel flow through the petcocks before pulling the tank. If fuel flow OK then pull tank and headlight and start looking for a bad connection (ground also). I never had the kill switch on the handle bar apart, another place to look.
Even with this problem it was a great ride!!
Although I have only 40 miles on them the Continental GO's seem like a very good tire.