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Old April 13th, 2014, 09:26 PM   #116
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Name: Cadd
Location: 41°21'13.1"N, 74°41'37.4"W
Join Date: Jan 2014

Motorcycle(s): 300

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MOTM - May '15
Update: Weather in the 50s now. Yesterday's fill up was as follows:
- Trip meter shows 75 miles.
- Needed 2.1 gallons to fill up.

35.7mpg.

I don't know....it still a bit low.


Some new observations:

1 - My buddy was driving while I was riding. At one point I pulled next to him at a long red light. After I accelerated in front of him when the light turned green, he tells me that he smells a lot of gas.

2 - Sometimes I have a difficult time starting the bike. It was 70 degrees today. I rode 15 miles to a buddy's house to drop of something. I had the bike turned off in front of his house for about 3-5 minutes. When I started it again, it had a difficult time starting. When it finally started, the idle was around 500rpm and struggling. The only way to prevent it from stalling was to blip the throttle a bit. Then it stablized at 1,300rpm.

What do these two scenarios tell you guys about the bike?
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