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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

I'm not so sure...

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Spencer Racing... www.spencerracing.co.uk

So if he was a Hardly rider it would be....

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

I always turn my fuel off now. A lesson learned.

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.

Turn fuel on



Fixed that for you pash

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Last year I joined a group for anti-social people
We haven't met yet.

More fleshy and explosion prone - sort of like a you mean.

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Sept 2017. Email will find me.

Good point, I always turn the fuel off as per Mojomick.

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08 Specialized Langster

Forgot to mention the fuel tap, always turned off on the M2, I don't tend to not bother with the X1 though

I have turned the tap off, will see what happens next time I start it!

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Remember to turn it on - or you'll

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Sept 2017. Email will find me.

Just seen this thread,can't be arsed to read all the way thru,but skimmed a fewposts.
Basically modern unleaded fuels are not designed for carburettors.All about efi clean emmissions etc.Certainly not designed to efficiently vapourise in a carb and stay in suspension round a few corners.Designed to vapourise when sprayed into hot valves,so no real suprise that cold running on carbs is poor,only real option is to allow bike to warm up.

My carbed-hinckley- bonnie has a strange reaction to the wonderful concoction that they now call unleaded petrol.
On a number of occassions I have had the float needles stick closed! requiring a complete strip down to unstick and clean. Find that lovely orange wax built up in the float chamber.My conclusion was that fuel was evaporating from the float bowl-possibly immediately after use ,when everything is red hot.
Now I do the complete opposite of the sensible advise I leave the tap on at all times.Never had a problem since,but the wife has used it a couple of times and turned it off.Next time I went to use it fired up then died when float bowls emptied and I had to strip and clean again.Somehow it leaves the float needle in the up position as fuel level gradually lowers,sort of suggests that fuel is softening the needle enough to make it "sticky"

lots of stories about melting plastic fuel tanks floating around,the place I get my fibreglass supplies from have been supplying resins for petropatch type fuel tank repair and sealer systems for something like 30+years,they have now run out of formulations and can't find anything to withstand super unleaded for more than 12months....but they don't think it's the ethanol !

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Nige...1125d 9.43@140mph

Have no grounds to disagree, however back to Ash's Mikuni, I have one on my S1 and have no issues with starting nor early running. Just a case of a wind of the throttle before starting (as the ECM does for you) and using the choke until the engine is warm enough.

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08 Specialized Langster

I have no reason to argue with anything said either except turn your fuel tap off everytime you stop or you will be buying a new engine Ash, you have been warned
This is not to be confused with what happens to any other bike although that said, I left the fuel tap on the wifes Lambretta with a full tank and it ran straight through the engine, out the exhaust and completely covered the garage floor needless to say it didn't start till I emptied the crankcase and the exhaust of fuel.
its worse than this on your Buell.
Andy

unless it's a Buell Blast......eeerrr BLAST

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Since turning it off between rides, I have had no backfires when starting at all, I guess the Mikuni does leak fuel through when stood still!

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