I gotcha, I just want to encourage ppl to do this stuff, if you educate yourself a little bit then it really isn't a hard task. Besides you can't get an old bike and expect you can just ride it without doing any maintenance.
http://xjbikes.wikidot.com/the-list On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:18 PM, EGrider <[email protected]> wrote: > In a perfect world, you're right. Asking someone who doesn't know the > carbs have an idle screw to take them off and clean them is a dangerous > thing, IMHO. I've seen several bikes on CL that said "bike was running > until my buddy said he'd clean the carbs for me." And as I've said before, > just take your bike into the shops here and say "clean the carbs" and > you're looking at a $400 bill. So the question comes down to "Would you pay > $400 to drop your idle speed from 1500 to 1000?" I didn't figure he would, > so that's why I answered the way I did. > > Even worse, he could spend all that money to have the carbs cleaned and > then come to find out the boots were leaking and making it idle high. That > would be an "Ay caramba!" moment for sure. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
