Hey guys, my bike left me stranded again, and it's a 2012. I know haven't posted in a while, and I hte to come in a kvetch, but this too, is not a happy marriage. I am just looking for the bike that doesn't melt or refuse to start every time the temperature gets a little cool.
Basically, it's happy in the heat, but once it gets into the 50's, it has a really hard time in the warm up cycle. After a few minutes of running it starts to snort and buck and choke, and you can't really ride it safely for another 2-3 minutes. The sysmptom gets WAY worse if you ride it only a short distance as a commuter. Then one it hits aout freezing, it's very hard to keep running once you start it, and after it stalls once or twice, it refuses to start at all. You can smell the gas, likes it's just dumping the fuel, and it's flooded and the plug totally washed out. So far just letting it sit over night and a slight temperature increase got it to start. Swapping the plug is pointless because it does it again after a few rides. And you begin to run the battery down too.
I admit I don't have much tolerance for this sort of thing. Stuff doesn't have to be pretty or fancy, but it does need to run, and run reliably. That's why I have chosen a fuel injected model. I found the this kind of behaviour has been eradicated in most modern fuel injection systems. But apparently not in bikes, or this bike. I can't possibly see ow this thing could be maped to 18,000 feet given this kind of problem in cooler dryer air.
Any thoughts before I get hosed on a couple more grand dumping for a Japanese bike that might have a carb but actually starts? As a female I can't be stuck by the side of the road at midnight or have a warm weather bike.