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Originally Posted by CBeth88

Thank you all for the responses! To answer some questions, the bike has about 4900 miles, all stock parts, and was sitting for about 2 1/2 weeks.

I'm starting with the air filter. Cleaned it well, letting it dry overnight, then I'll coat it with oil and reinstall tomorrow and see what happens. It wasn't pretty, but didn't seem all that bad. The outer side was covered in what looked like little black shavings, inner side was perfect, didn't see any wear and tear. I cleaned out the airbox though and there was an elastic circular band in there, about 4" long, 1/2" wide. I can't imagine that's suppose to be there, but I have no idea where it came from.

Is is possible that something built a nest in the airbox?

"...The outer side was covered in what looked like little black shavings"