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Hi
Iam a new member and new owner of my first 2006 VTR - two weeks now only 15600km on the clock. Can any one help.When I start bike from cold with choke out full it will start straight away and begin to warm up then one or two minutes into the warm up it stalls/stops with a mechanical clunk (scares me) After all the forums about cam chain tensioners etc. Once bike is warmed up seems to run OK over 3500rpm but very missy in the lower RPM range around town.Not sure if it could be mixtures?? or timming? or is this a trait with these big v twins? I will not ride it until I receive your feed backs and advice just to be safe.
Thanks Comet

It sounds like you need to push the ckoke in to the half way point once it's been running for a bit. It also sounds like you need the carbs balanced. Once they are balanced you might find your tickover speed needs increasing a couple of hundred revs

dont think you have any major problems, and the advice above is where I would start.

Welcome

A funny thing with these bikes is that some need choke and some don't.
I tend to try to start Storms without choke, but then pull about half or quaretr choke on if it doesn't cath in a couple of seconds.

Sounds like it's rich on full choke, but no surprise there.

They don't need full choke and sit warming up for ages like most bikes, aand as you've found out, quit eoften stall on tickover fom cold once started.

Mainly this is because the run HUUGE carbs, which don't work at all well at low airflow speeds- actually it's a wonder they start at all...

Ride the bloody thing, they make all sorts of funny coughs, bangs and pops.

You'll get used to it, but not if you put it away the first time it stalls.

As above said. Sometimes I need to throttle mine (choke for ages) and sometimes I dont. Most of the time my normal start up procedure is enough chokage though.

Press datatool thingy to make pretty lights flash and bike beep.
Pull choke out fully.
Put key in
Twist throttle briefly
Press red make noise button to make the bike start
Take disk lock off
Put lid and gloves on.

Normally by the time I've done that I can push the choke back in fully and ride away.

Every now and then the bike will cough stall when I knock it into gear from neutral. Or when I sit at the lights a little over enthusiastic with the throttle. (well they make such a lovely noise its hard not to blip the throttle at the lights). I've just accepted that its part of the joys of owning these machines. They hiccup, fart and burp like a baby filled with fizzy pop at times but they are so much fun!

Thanks for your feed back. Will get carbs syncronised when back in town and then hit the road and put some KMS on her real soon. All the reveiws about going to a V twin from an inline four bike were right. What a buzz to ride!
Cheers

You wait until you get the first Airbox fart. That'll scare the sh1t out of you. You can feel the thud in your knees. Feels like a little explosion where the tank is. They happen pretty infrequently, normally when you forget about the things. They sound like a big thuddy pop coming from below you.

Perfectly normal though. I saw a post about the very things on here after my first one.

1500rpm idle speed gets rid of the cough and also reduces engine braking a little.
try it. you will like it.

benny hedges wrote:1500rpm idle speed gets rid of the cough and also reduces engine braking a little.
try it. you will like it.

Tis what my bike idles @ & no problems. Welcome to the forum