Recent content by benzy2

Riding on a flat surface with no passenger mine doesn't come up shifting to second. If I have it WOT in first when it hits vboost it will come up but I haven't had it come up starting second no matter how hard I was on it in first though it does get a little light.

Yeah I'm all set. I picked up the service manual today as well. Between the net and the manual its all covered. I wasn't looking at the instructions to know if #1 or #2 was the master so I may have misspoke on that. Once I factor in the idle screw everything made sense and I'm ready to go...

Yeah I read the thread on it and saw that you were adjusting to a fixed carb. What I wasn't considering was adjusting idle. The idle adjustment is what gets you back to where you want to be for all the carbs. I was thinking if #1 was way too high or low and you sync the rest to it you would...

Looking at getting a carb sync tool and was still just a hair unclear on the readings. I read the tutorial and it says to tune 1 and 2 then 3 and 4 and finally left to right. Sounds simple enough but I still have one or two small questions. Using a gauge I will be looking at numbers. Are...

Odd you do this comparison. I have two bikes, one a new to me 2000 Vmax and the other a 2008 Concours 14. From the little I have ran the Vmax it seems once the quarter passes the Kawi would shine. It seems to pull strong a lot longer than the Vmax. That ZX14 motor was tuned down a bit on the...