Briefish history:
Original carbs had shot tubes/needles, 5000mile pair acquired from the bay of E and have been fine, six months ago bike off the road, had carbon cans with db killers and was fine, meanwhile acquired nice shiny Carbon Can Co zorsts with baffly bit still in.
Last two days i've been feckin about trying to get the bugger running right with these CCC cans and will it shite as like run proper, even gone back to the standard 10ton cans and still it's a gutless wonder
Starting & idling seem pretty good, then you try pull away - needs a handful of throttle and a gentle slippy clutch - bit better when going but nowhere near what it should be or was.
Initially the mixture was suspect as it stunk of petrol - mate behind me said he was getting another 20 to the gallon cos of my fumes! (shoulda charged him) so started fiddling with the carbys and the mix screw, gone between 2- 2.5 turns out and still gutless, stripped carbs and found bugger all, checked floats @ 12mm but shifted em up a bit to 14mm, next to zilch needle/tube wear.
managed to get to 60mph in 3rd and that was about it
So what have i missed ??
not quite as bad as it sounds as while it was off the road i was starting at least once a month and I never noticed no.2 was not running - so the oil that eventually fouled the plug i'm assuming is seeping in via the valve seals.
well just got to refit the Cabon Can Co thingys tomorrow and see if i need to do yet more fettling
smoked like a train for a while when i fired up with both plugs firing, kinda impressed with how well it ran on 1 cylinder though.
but that can wait till after the summer 