You take it in for one thing and they find something else. Typical!

[ChrisBiggsUK]

After watching some videos, reading some posts, and letting some people hear the bike, the conclusion was reached that the carb needs cleaning and adjusting a bit.  Given the tyres, oil, brake fluid, battery and so on that hadn't been touched in the near 20 years before I bought the bike, it is understandable that the carb could do with a little TLC.  Although I am a god-like super mechanic, I am wary about having a go at that myself right now, so took it off to get it looked at professionally.  While the chap was looking and listening, he agreed that yup, could do with being looked at more thoroughly.  He then, quite accidentally, and while the bike was on its centre stand still running, knocked my handlebars all the way to side whereupon the engine started to rev something crazy.  Turns out, there is some sort of throttle cable issue too.  Bloody typical!

I'll be honest, I hadn't noticed anything while riding.  Then again, it is extremely rare that I turn the handlebars fully to one side or the other, with that usually only ever happening at very low speeds and wile controlling low speed manoeuvres with clutch and brake, so if indeed it did start revving out of the ordinary I probably wouldn't have been any the wiser, would have probably thought it was a quirk of the bike, and would have compensated with more brake and clutch control.  Now that I know it does it though, just you watch me notice it every time!

Bike booked in for the 17th to sort the carb and the throttle cable.  While yes, I could probably do them myself, and have done quite a lot of things myself so far, I'm just not quite 'there' yet for messing with the carb and certainly not with something as critical as a throttle cable.  Baby steps.

That wasn't very ranty of me.  I came on here to rant about it.  Erm.  Poppycock!  Balderdash!  Have at thee or some such!

Going to go for an evenings ride in a bit (They said the bike is still perfectly safe to ride, I just go a little zoomier when I turn right) to calm down as I'm clearly rather worked up.

Well, I'm using that as an excuse for an evenings ride.  Wife doesn't need to know I'm sanguine about it all.  If she thinks I'm rather hecked, then an evenings ride to 'clear my head' is needed.

If you see someone zooming super fast round every right hand bend with a gormless smile on his face, don't worry.  Its just me.

Non-rant over!

[Simon Davey]

I'm not a carb mechanic either, I just bought a new carb for my quad bike because trying to fix it wasn't simple enough 

Good luck with it, hope it's not too costly.

[husoi]

Comparing carbs with for example adjusting the valves. I would say carbs are far easier.

Everything is pretty much either a clean or replacement in a carb.

Unless you want to change the amount of petrol going in everything is very straightforward.

Obviously gets a wee bit complicated with twin or triple carbs because of the syncing.

I would rather do the carbs than changing the chain set

[Old and Withered]

Isn't it more likely to be cable routing rather anything wrong with the carbs. If ever I have had this problem it's because someone has passed the throttle cables the wrong side of the headstock.

[ChrisBiggsUK]

1 minute ago, Old and Withered said:

Isn't it more likely to be cable routing rather anything wrong with the carbs. If ever I have had this problem it's because someone has passed the throttle cables the wrong side of the headstock.

The carb needed doing anyway and they then found the cable issue as a separate issue.  They don't know it yet, but when I semi-jokingly told them I was only going to pay them for fixing the carb and they could do the cable gratis, I was being serious.  Well, as serious as I can be.

I'm a mostly unserious type of person.

[Simon Davey]

At least they won't be able to charge extra for labour, as the cable is coming off the carb's anyway. 

[ChrisBiggsUK]

2 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

At least they won't be able to charge extra for labour, as the cable is coming off the carb's anyway. 

And if they do try to charge extra, I'll write a strongly worded letter!  Don't know who to yet, but I'll write one!

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Swinging the handlebars to full lock either side with the engine running is part of the MOT anyway so it's no bad thing to find that out now.

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Swinging the handlebars to full lock either side with the engine running is part of the MOT anyway so it's no bad thing to find that out now.

 

I didn't know that, so thanks.

[bud]

It's probably had the throttle cable replaced at some time. And like @Old and Withered said. Not replaced correctly.

It's a good thing they found it.