no idling at 2000m

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barrioplano
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no idling at 2000m

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The other day I was on Mt. Fuji, on which you can drive up to 2000m (about 6000 ft), but when I stopped the Storm in the parking at the end of the road the engine went off and there was no way to get it idling. Is this normal...?
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Re: no idling at 2000m

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barrioplano wrote:The other day I was on Mt. Fuji, on which you can drive up to 2000m (about 6000 ft), but when I stopped the Storm in the parking at the end of the road the engine went off and there was no way to get it idling. Is this normal...?
Yes, and if you had walked up 2000m of hill you wouldn't be idling either. Its the height and lack of oxygen. not normally noticed on bikes because few of us get to ride at those heights. Did everything return to nromal when you came back down ?

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Post by barrioplano »

Because of the lower tenor of oxygen I would have expected the bike to lose a little of power and maybe having an instable idling -- rather than giving up idling at all. Did you actually bring your VTR at a similar altitude and had the same experience?

(When I climbed the top of Mt. Fuji I was actually rather short of oxygen, but that was 3700m :))

When I drove back everything went back to normal -- i.e. a somewhat unstable idling... :(
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One of the manuals, whether the on line one, or the Haynes one gives the settings for consistant riding above a certain height where the engine is starved of air at the normal settings. NOTE: Only for when the bike is constantly run at altitudes!!
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RQ wrote:One of the manuals, whether the on line one, or the Haynes one gives the settings for consistant riding above a certain height where the engine is starved of air at the normal settings. NOTE: Only for when the bike is constantly run at altitudes!!
That'd be one of Simon's hump-back bridges then :!:
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Heh heh, I was typing the last post wondering what smartness would come back at me!! The only thing I could come up with was about people looking to the sky and asking Is there a Storm coming................. :roll:
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>> people looking to the sky asking is there a Storm coming

HA HA HA -- this is what the policeman told to my friend riding a Honda 400 with four-in-one exhaust while writing him a ticket for the non registered silencer ;-)
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my Hornet each time in french Alps at attitudes up to 2800 meters, and for quite some times (couple of hours always above 1800 meters upto 2800) and never had any issue.
did not tried with Storm yet, butwill do next year - we'll see..
For me that sounds like too much for just 2000 meters
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