Mine's about the same ('02 750). I start it the same way - full
choke, no throttle, it starts at the touch of the button. When revs
climb to about 3k I start dropping the choke back till it idles
without the choke (about 5 to 7 minutes) and then I can go. Even
then I may have to give it a little choke for the first mile or two
unless I'm going straight out onto the open road.
Mine is never ready from cold within seconds. My 700 is however,
very different, Graham
On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:26 AM, mhillard wrote:
>
> I practice a starting regimine very similar to what surfswab just
> detailed but my '03 750 takes minutes, not seconds, to be actually
> "ride ready". When it's cold, I turn the choke to full-on and the
> bike will start with very little cranking (and no throttle). I let it
> idle at full-choke until the rpm's climb to about 3000, then move it
> to half- choke. The idle speed will drop back down, then slowly climb
> up again. Once the rpm's hit around 2500 a second time the bike is
> ready to go. I've never timed it, but I would say the whole process
> takes 5 to 7 minutes. But that's also about how long it takes me to
> get my riding gear on and the gates opened at my house, so when I'm
> ready the bike is. It seems that anything less causes the bike to
> barely want to move. If you drop it into first and give it throttle,
> the engine sounds like it's about to stall out when you start to let
> the clutch out. I may be wrong, but I thought this was just a
> characteristic of the Nighthawks. I've got less than 4K miles on it,
> and otherwise it runs well.
>
> - mhillard
> >
>
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