{"id":10442,"date":"2021-08-05T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2021-08-04T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:46:23","slug":"running-good-not-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/running-good-not-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Good, Not Great"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the twisties on the Needles Highway. Using the GoPro I’m finally able to get these kinds of shots.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

We’re home now from this year’s OFMC ride<\/a> and while I’m eager to tell you all about the trip, if you’re really hard-core your number one question would be, “how did the Kawi run<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

I can’t give a one- or two-word answer to that. So I won’t.<\/p>\n

It ran well. It ran a lot better than it did before Joel worked on it. It did not run perfectly and at times it ran alarmingly. Details:<\/p>\n

Ever since this bike has been giving me problems it has been hard to get it going from a start. Once in motion it has run OK, other than dying when I’m coasting to a stop. Those problems are gone. There are new ones.<\/p>\n

All Kawasakis, as far as I know, are cold-blooded, meaning you need to fire them up and let them run a few moments before you take off. This one is no different but now it responds more readily to a twist of the throttle than it had been doing. The flip side of that is that when I roll off the throttle the engine does not immediately back off as it should. It continues to run hot for a moment and then fades.<\/p>\n

Or worse. At times, though fortunately not all the time, the throttle seemed to stick and every time I would pull in the clutch the engine would race. Imagine pulling up to a red light, pulling in the clutch to stop, and having your engine sound like you’re screaming down the highway. I suspect that at its worst that kind of thing could damage the engine. What I would do is let the clutch out just a tiny bit and hold firmly on the brake. That reduced the screaming. It was probably hell on the clutch.<\/p>\n

The rest of the bike was great. I knew there was enough rubber on the back tire for the trip but that I would need a new one when I got home. We actually rode about 400 miles more than I anticipated so let’s say I was definitely correct about the tire, in both ways. When I give the bike back to Joel to put in the needed carb parts and get the bike running the way it should I’ll also have him put on a new tire.<\/p>\n

But the bike did me well on the trip and that’s the most important thing. And it was a great trip–can’t wait to tell you about it.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Life is a big road with lots of signs, so when riding through ruts, don’t complicate your mind, wake up and live life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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