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Hello, looking back on this its a long read, but the title sums it up. An idling and running issue at the end may be related.
My throttle is getting stuck wide open and I have no control my bike. The first thought was that the cable was stuck, but the 3 times I've had it happen the cable snaps back and returns. This latest time, I was lucid enough to make that certain, I did it at least ten times on my way back. No extra slack in the cable.
The first time this happened was after a ~150 mile day trip on the highway about 5 minutes from my house. Luckily my exit was .5 miles away. It happened when I went to pass a guy, dropped into 4th, revved up, clutch in, and revs stay up around 7-8k. Get back into 5th, confused, as it pulls me to 68, 70, 75, and not knowing what was going on just tried to regulate with the clutch to the exit. Then I kept it from taking off under me with the brakes all the way home.
I got it to do it again a few days later around the neighborhoods. It happens when you really rev on it.
In between that time and this latest time, a handy coworker said to get Lucas Injector Cleaner and put some in your tank. "It'll work the gunk loose and run like new." So I did, rode a couple tame rides without WOT and thought he was right.
Until tonight. It happened unexpectedly, I wasn't pushing very hard. Tonight was the last straw because as I was braking to hold it back, I hit a patch of sand and nearly washed out at 20 or so mph. I was a little shaken.
While I was testing if the throttle cable had slack, when the bike was pulling hard I could stab the throttle and it would slow down. It didn't quite slow down to where it was idling previously, it stayed at 2000 rpm for example. I did this a few times too to make sure it was real.
___ Other issue - Also, right before this ^^^, after riding 10-15 minutes, RPMS started to slow down and would have died if I didn't bump the throttle. It was idling consistently at ~1.1k rpms, then slowly slowed to 1k, 900, etc. I played with the idle knob to bring it up. Turning it, it would rev up to 2k, stay for a couple seconds, then fall down to 1.1-1.2, then slowly go even further down. This is when I turned around to go home.
Also, how I got caught with WOT again was because on my way home I really revved it. However, when right before it had power at most of the rpm range, it started to bog under a lot of throttle and not provide power.
I apologize for the long post but I tried to provide useful info for you smart people to maybe figure it out.
Throttle slides?
Thanks for reading.
My throttle is getting stuck wide open and I have no control my bike. The first thought was that the cable was stuck, but the 3 times I've had it happen the cable snaps back and returns. This latest time, I was lucid enough to make that certain, I did it at least ten times on my way back. No extra slack in the cable.
The first time this happened was after a ~150 mile day trip on the highway about 5 minutes from my house. Luckily my exit was .5 miles away. It happened when I went to pass a guy, dropped into 4th, revved up, clutch in, and revs stay up around 7-8k. Get back into 5th, confused, as it pulls me to 68, 70, 75, and not knowing what was going on just tried to regulate with the clutch to the exit. Then I kept it from taking off under me with the brakes all the way home.
I got it to do it again a few days later around the neighborhoods. It happens when you really rev on it.
In between that time and this latest time, a handy coworker said to get Lucas Injector Cleaner and put some in your tank. "It'll work the gunk loose and run like new." So I did, rode a couple tame rides without WOT and thought he was right.
Until tonight. It happened unexpectedly, I wasn't pushing very hard. Tonight was the last straw because as I was braking to hold it back, I hit a patch of sand and nearly washed out at 20 or so mph. I was a little shaken.
While I was testing if the throttle cable had slack, when the bike was pulling hard I could stab the throttle and it would slow down. It didn't quite slow down to where it was idling previously, it stayed at 2000 rpm for example. I did this a few times too to make sure it was real.
___ Other issue - Also, right before this ^^^, after riding 10-15 minutes, RPMS started to slow down and would have died if I didn't bump the throttle. It was idling consistently at ~1.1k rpms, then slowly slowed to 1k, 900, etc. I played with the idle knob to bring it up. Turning it, it would rev up to 2k, stay for a couple seconds, then fall down to 1.1-1.2, then slowly go even further down. This is when I turned around to go home.
Also, how I got caught with WOT again was because on my way home I really revved it. However, when right before it had power at most of the rpm range, it started to bog under a lot of throttle and not provide power.
I apologize for the long post but I tried to provide useful info for you smart people to maybe figure it out.
Throttle slides?
Thanks for reading.
