Bumping this back to the top. How's the bike 2CV?
Many things have kept me from riding/writing. Wet, too hot, pain, my last big This Old House project going into Month Two. Very detailed, very time-consuming. Hour on, hour off, repeat. Moan on couch.
Many Pilot jet switches with many mixture screw adjustments. I'm back to the original #30 now with exactly 3 full turns Out on the air screw. This is the ONLY setting that will give me reliable, repeatable kick starts. Any other setting & I can't trust it not to kill me if I go somewhere & shut it down for a few minutes when hot. I can trust it now; First start in the morning: One kick key off, richener pulled. Two (sometimes 3) kicks key on. Tiny bit of throttle when it first fires. In ten or 15 seconds you can let go & it will idle like a watch. When hot & shut down up to an hour just kick NOTHING else. After an hour it wants the richener again for one kick.
It runs marvelously well out on the road or around town. That's all I can say; "Marvelously well". I'm not the best motorcycle review writer for this bike. I've never ridden a "sport bike" or been a canyon runner & only had a Brit bike for one riding season, a 250cc vertical single BSA (mid-'50s as I remember). I rode it from Providence to the Block Island ferry in Jan '60 & rebuilt it on the island that Winter It was beat to death & had no generation at all. I stopped twice at gas stations on the way to the ferry to charge the battery for an hour AND froze my young punk ass off! But I HAD to have a motorcycle
I left that bike on Block Island when I left & have been a garage-built harley rider the rest of my 77 years.
I love this little black bike & all I know is that it runs Grrrrate!. Thanks, Ace. And everybody else who's given me hints or advice. OR smart-ass remarks