[nocturncal]

I had a hard starting problem for a while, chalked it up to dirty carbs/being cold originally.

Whenever I started the bike, it would sputter/have a hard time getting going.

After having the carbs cleaned, the bike ran perfect! Ride it around for a day, then today the sputtering returned! The first couple of pistons firings sounded super weak. But all it took was a second of winding the throttle or pulling the choke to full on startup to get the engine going, then perfect idling, no idle troubles for today.

Took a look at the carbs and one of the intake rubbers from the airbox to the carb had unseated itself. So I reseated em and now the bike starts up without a hitch, no weak piston firing during the first couple of cycles.

Does my fix sound plausible? I did this with the bike not cold, but not totally warmed up yet so I'm wondering if there's something else that could be going on.

Also trying to understand how a vacuum leak could lead to hard starting