Hey guys,
Need some help with my 80 xs. Bike starts and runs. The problem is that once you're in gear, any gear, the engine plateaus and all you get is the engine revving high (me accelerating). For example in first gear she'll accelerate to 10 mph then plateau. At this point I'll drop it into second gear accelerate fine briefly but then quickly hit that plateau again. Same thing for third gear and so on. I rebuilt the top end this past winter. Everything feels, sounds good. I cleaned out my carb just because it was sitting but made no changes to it's setup. I'm running mikuni vm34s with a 45 pilot jet, 45 needle jet, 145 main jet, 135 air jet, a 6 slot needle, long open exhaust pipes and mikes xs pod filters. Bike ran fine with this setup prior to rebuild so I figure it should run fine now. Reading/diagnosing my problem on this site I know I have to make some changes to this entire setup but first things first. I can't figure out why the engine is plateauing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Need some help with my 80 xs. Bike starts and runs. The problem is that once you're in gear, any gear, the engine plateaus and all you get is the engine revving high (me accelerating). For example in first gear she'll accelerate to 10 mph then plateau. At this point I'll drop it into second gear accelerate fine briefly but then quickly hit that plateau again. Same thing for third gear and so on. I rebuilt the top end this past winter. Everything feels, sounds good. I cleaned out my carb just because it was sitting but made no changes to it's setup. I'm running mikuni vm34s with a 45 pilot jet, 45 needle jet, 145 main jet, 135 air jet, a 6 slot needle, long open exhaust pipes and mikes xs pod filters. Bike ran fine with this setup prior to rebuild so I figure it should run fine now. Reading/diagnosing my problem on this site I know I have to make some changes to this entire setup but first things first. I can't figure out why the engine is plateauing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.