lien
XS650 Member
I'll be as brief and informative as I can about this because I'm still frustrated as hell. lol
This is my first real motorcycle and after three months of restoration I've finally got it started and running. A few days ago I attempted to ride it, or at least fiddle with it in the neighborhood. The thing is, I've never driven a manual motorcycle so it was very new to me. Nervousness and excitement sort of took over when I started the bike and I kicked it into first gear for my first ride. And of course I was so nervous and excited that I didn't even touch the clutch when I shifted so I just immediately stalled it. Tiny hints of smoke started wisping out of my right head pipe, right by the engine. This is because that pipe is a tad bit loose because the nuts are closed ended and the bolts are too long for it so they don't completely seal the headpipe in. I'll take care of that later. So yeah, little bits of wispy smoke. After that I called it a night.
Today I got my helmet in the mail and thought "this is a good time to try that first ride again, SAFELY, and make damn sure to hold that clutch for the first shift." So I set up everything. Made sure my battery was charged, lights working, petcocks were open, opened the gas tank and checked to see if I had enough and good fuel in the tank, and kick started her up. Doesn't work. I try again. It works but it lets out a brief put put put put into an immediate shut off. I try again and try to rev the engine to see if maybe it just needs some helping going. Nope. Just completely ignored my rev and still shut off. So I'm pretty upset because just the other day it was working fine and idling fine and now when I really get a good chance to make this thing go, it craps out on me.
Did I really jack it up from that one time of stalling it or do any of you have other theories? I really hope it's a simple fix. I'm so close to tearing up the highway!
I tried to be brief and I failed. Haha, sorry.
This is my first real motorcycle and after three months of restoration I've finally got it started and running. A few days ago I attempted to ride it, or at least fiddle with it in the neighborhood. The thing is, I've never driven a manual motorcycle so it was very new to me. Nervousness and excitement sort of took over when I started the bike and I kicked it into first gear for my first ride. And of course I was so nervous and excited that I didn't even touch the clutch when I shifted so I just immediately stalled it. Tiny hints of smoke started wisping out of my right head pipe, right by the engine. This is because that pipe is a tad bit loose because the nuts are closed ended and the bolts are too long for it so they don't completely seal the headpipe in. I'll take care of that later. So yeah, little bits of wispy smoke. After that I called it a night.
Today I got my helmet in the mail and thought "this is a good time to try that first ride again, SAFELY, and make damn sure to hold that clutch for the first shift." So I set up everything. Made sure my battery was charged, lights working, petcocks were open, opened the gas tank and checked to see if I had enough and good fuel in the tank, and kick started her up. Doesn't work. I try again. It works but it lets out a brief put put put put into an immediate shut off. I try again and try to rev the engine to see if maybe it just needs some helping going. Nope. Just completely ignored my rev and still shut off. So I'm pretty upset because just the other day it was working fine and idling fine and now when I really get a good chance to make this thing go, it craps out on me.
Did I really jack it up from that one time of stalling it or do any of you have other theories? I really hope it's a simple fix. I'm so close to tearing up the highway!
I tried to be brief and I failed. Haha, sorry.