REALLY need a mechanic!!!

[sjonesuk]

Hey guys,

The bike is now fixed!

It rides and sounds 10 times better than it did before I had a mechanic look at it. I got a full service, new oil filter, tank cleaned out (and unblocked), had some bolts replaced, cleaned the carbs and all of the usual full service stuff on top of that. Needs to go back for new brake pads soon and definitely a new throttle cable, it's not very responsive, but still very heavy to handle.

All in all, the repairs and whatnot cost me £155. Turns out there was a lot of water in the engine, which was the biggest cause of all my problems.

Oh, and after all that, I'm now confident that I'm using my choke properly (which I was before anyway, it turns out).

[R P Corse]

glad you got it sorted mate ... but water in your engine? thats not a good sign! any idea how it got there?

[Tirpitz]

Oh, and after all that, I'm now confident that I'm using my choke properly (which I was before anyway, it turns out).

So are you trying to tell us that you are now happy that it is normal to run the bike for an extended length of time (or constantly) with the choke on? If so I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you are totally and utterly wrong, if the bike needs that it still has a problem.

If you're just saying you need the choke to start it that's fine.

If you've had water in the engine and it's been running like that I would expect further problems to crop up. As BigB says, you want to be finding out how that has happened as otherwise the problem may re-occur. Running an engine with water in it is likely to cause a siezure, which at speed will not be a pleasant experience and may not be one you get the opportunity to relate after the event, depending how lucky you are.

Good news that you are getting somewhere but you need to keep going as I think there are some issues still to sort here.