Top tip...

When replacing bits around the bike's injection system...

And you check it before putting the fairing back on...

And you find a piece of 'rubber stuff' that's meant to stop heat coming
out of the fairing onto your legs...

And realise you should have put this in place around the fuel rail
before reassembling it...

Don't just jam it in around the throttle bodies and fuel rail thinking
"that'll do"...

'cos when you start the bike the following morning you'll notice the
throttle is slightly stiff. You'll then do the reasonable thing of
forcing the throttle open as you pull away... and the throttle bodies
will then jam WFO as you descend your steep driveway. You then find you
can't cut the bike's acceleration.

Thank Ged for kill switches.

 

Bwaaahaaa, and a quick trip back to change the underpants. Did you not
think to give it a twist in neutral sitting on its stand?

 

Why would I think to give it a 'quick twist in neutral'? I wouldn't
normally, I'd start the fucker and leave.

Underpants were fine BTW, it was just fortunate this didn't happen in a
couple of months when the lower part of my driveway gets icy just before
it meets with a v.busy A-Road. That would have been interesting[1];
brick wall on one side, barbed wire fence on the other, blind entrance
onto A road- no escape whatsoever!

[1] in a Chinese sense.

 

In neutral, you can redline the engine on a fractional opening. What's that
going to show? Go on, go out to your bike, start it and open the throttle
fully in neutral.

 

I have a memory of you and a Honda CB250RS, doing something similar.

 

<snigger>

 

Weeelll, generally when I'm buggering around, afterwards, I sit it on
the cenre stand and let it warm up. But it must be said, I'd do that
after washing it, I'm a bit of a pansy on that front.

Well, thank geD for small mercies, and if nothing else, it gave me a
laugh

 

Errrmmm...better red line in neutral than red line in gear. Imho.

 

The point is that you'll redline the thing on a fractional opening, without
opening it enough to discover that it's sticking. So giving it a quick blip
is going to prove exactly zilch.

 

Ah, well I'd been fucking around with bikes all day Sunday. I'd got it
running around 8pm and just threw the fairing back on. Left for work at
7.10AM or so on Monday morning, late.

 

It was; I'd got to the narrow bit with a hedge on one side (with a wall
behind it) and a barbed wire fence on the other... and crap tarmac
covered in shit under the tyres...

 

platypus wrote:

Tis true I suppose, I was recipient of an old Dolomite that had a sticky
carb and would stick wide open but only under full load. Like for
instance going up a hill, you'd crest the hill and take off like a bat
out of hell down the other side with the throttle wide open.

Made for interesting driving.