I was sitting in the parking lot of the pass and decal shop on base and just got my base stickers, went to start her up she started to struggle for about 2 seconds trying to catch and then backfired (scared the crap out of the gate guards LOL) then I tried again and she started right up.

Now my questions is (since I am new to bikes and all) what could cause this new thing. I have had the bike for over a month and ride it pretty much everyday, and this is the first time this has happened.

Is it as simple as a carb adjustment or is it the sign of something that will cost alot more money?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

2002 Fayboy carb'ed, and yes I do need a new battery but waiting for income tax. The battery I have now when I start the bike it rolls over once stops for like a couple of seconds like it stopped trying the fires to life.

 

If the bike is not doing it on a regular basis, I wouldn't worry about it, It probably just got a little flooded, and when the excess gas caught it backfired. Being a military guy myself, I would have paid money to see the look on those gate guards faces when that thing went off! Riding on base can be a pain in the butt with all the requirements they have these days. I've went round and round with the gate guards on more than one occasion over what is and what is not authorized riding gear.
Where are you stationed?

 

I am stationed at NAS Corpus Christi. Yeah as for the riding gear that is required now days it is getting insane. Unfortunatlly I live on base too so it is even more lame cause I have to wear all this gear whenever I go anywhere. But oh well it will be cool once I get my bags cause then I can just wear it stop outside the gate take it off and continue on

 

Been riding years, my carbed Harley did this a lot (sold now)(shame) injection ones wont do this .It is caused by excess fuel . Dont worry if this happens now and again.It is normally because you opened the throttle before starting the bike putting too much fuel through the carb.
Once you get a feel for this you can do it when you want to.This can be fun with passers by and obvoiusly gate guards.
You can also do this when riding by hitting the kill switch leaving it for a few seconds then switching it back on.
This is probably not legal so I would never suggest you try it.









enjoy !!

 

I was in the Navy just a few years ago, stationed in Ingleside, I also worked at base security there at NAS for a while. Small world. I got out five (almost six) years ago from Ingleside when they did away with my rate (Signalman) and joined the Coast Guard. I still have alot of friends down that way.

 

Cool Cool, so how is the CG? can't be much different then the Navy, I heard your deployments are alot shorter but alot more often is there any truth in that?

 

The CG is good, the job is allot more demanding than the Navy, due to the fact that we are so small (the entire CG is smaller than the New York City police dept.). They throw allot more responsibility at us which is good and bad depending on how you look at it. I like it, I will be retiring in about 18 months, so I'm looking forward to that. The job is pretty fast paced, we do so much Law Enforcement and S.A.R. that allot of times we don’t have time to train, which is quite a departure from my Navy days when it seemed all we did was train train train, and oh I almost forgot paint paint paint!
There are some things the Navy does better, and sometimes I miss it, but most of the time I really enjoy the CG.
Deployments are useually about a week or two. Unless your on a big cutter (we only have a few), then they are 6 months just like the Navy. Most of our jobs are land based (Small Boat Stations), allot of the time you actually have to fight to get a sea command.
So... what’s your rate?