My bike developed this strange behavior lately. It may have been there for a while, but I did not notice it because it requires very specific set of circumstances to manifest itself which does not happen to me all the time. Here is the issue:
If by bike is at the temperatures that is over 205F (which is on the high side, but still normal on 08, fan does not kick in until 212F on 08s), and I pull on the clutch because I am coming to a stop in a low speed, it stalls. The bad part is this happens at times I don't have enough speed to "kick" start the bike and bike will not start with the starter. If I wait until bike temperature goes below 180F, it starts right back up like nothing happened.
I have read through the "stalling" threads, but, haven't seen anything that describes my problem. Bike runs great otherwise, no hesitation of any kind at any RPM levels, idles in normal 1300 range regardless of the temperatures. Bike stays running if it heats up to 200F range while it is standing still. But, if I start moving and stop, it will stall and will not start again until it cools down.
I ride mostly on highways so conditions that manifests this problem does not happen all that often to me until I am in the city riding through traffic lights at the end of my commute into the city in hot weather and I end up getting stuck in "every" light. So, the problem may have been there for a while, but I may not have noticed it because most of the time I am not stopped long enough for the bike to reach 200F levels.
Basically, bike is not transitioning from higher RPMs to idle RPMs when it is hot. Has anybody experienced this problem with their bike? What did you end up doing to resolve it?
Other than Laser Quads, there are no modifications on my bike for the engine and it has little over 7K miles on it.
If by bike is at the temperatures that is over 205F (which is on the high side, but still normal on 08, fan does not kick in until 212F on 08s), and I pull on the clutch because I am coming to a stop in a low speed, it stalls. The bad part is this happens at times I don't have enough speed to "kick" start the bike and bike will not start with the starter. If I wait until bike temperature goes below 180F, it starts right back up like nothing happened.
I have read through the "stalling" threads, but, haven't seen anything that describes my problem. Bike runs great otherwise, no hesitation of any kind at any RPM levels, idles in normal 1300 range regardless of the temperatures. Bike stays running if it heats up to 200F range while it is standing still. But, if I start moving and stop, it will stall and will not start again until it cools down.
I ride mostly on highways so conditions that manifests this problem does not happen all that often to me until I am in the city riding through traffic lights at the end of my commute into the city in hot weather and I end up getting stuck in "every" light. So, the problem may have been there for a while, but I may not have noticed it because most of the time I am not stopped long enough for the bike to reach 200F levels.
Basically, bike is not transitioning from higher RPMs to idle RPMs when it is hot. Has anybody experienced this problem with their bike? What did you end up doing to resolve it?
Other than Laser Quads, there are no modifications on my bike for the engine and it has little over 7K miles on it.
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