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Bike\'s dead on the highway. Help!
Hey folks,
Ok, here's the saga. I was riding the EX home today and it died on me. I'm not sure why. I noticed that it started losing power, and tried to give it a little more gas a test. No response. I reached down and tried flipping the reserve. I'm pretty sure that I had to move it from "on" to "reserve". No response, and now I'm slowing down. I try to give it a touch more gas again and still no response. Seconds later, ,the bike died.
I coasted the bike to the side of the highway and checked around. The petcock was set to the on position. I tried starting it again with no luck. A lot of cranking and no action. I put the choke all the way on and tried again. It started! For all of 2 seconds, the cranking caught and the revs went over 2k. Then it died again.
I rocked the bike back and forth a bit, and there's some gas in there; not a lot, and I knew I'd have to fill up pretty soon, but there's still a little in there.
So... I'm going to try driving down there early in the morning before traffic picks up (2 or 3 in the morning) and try filling the tank to see if it helps. Any other suggestions?
Hey folks,
Ok, here's the saga. I was riding the EX home today and it died on me. I'm not sure why. I noticed that it started losing power, and tried to give it a little more gas a test. No response. I reached down and tried flipping the reserve. I'm pretty sure that I had to move it from "on" to "reserve". No response, and now I'm slowing down. I try to give it a touch more gas again and still no response. Seconds later, ,the bike died.
I coasted the bike to the side of the highway and checked around. The petcock was set to the on position. I tried starting it again with no luck. A lot of cranking and no action. I put the choke all the way on and tried again. It started! For all of 2 seconds, the cranking caught and the revs went over 2k. Then it died again.
I rocked the bike back and forth a bit, and there's some gas in there; not a lot, and I knew I'd have to fill up pretty soon, but there's still a little in there.
So... I'm going to try driving down there early in the morning before traffic picks up (2 or 3 in the morning) and try filling the tank to see if it helps. Any other suggestions?