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The next time I work on the Maicoletta, I must remember that if I tighten the screw under the right handlebar, the throttle will become very sticky, causing the engine to rev wildly before eventually settling down. This problem has more than once transformed an hour-long maintenance of the carburettor into a multiple hour carb tuning session. Getting at the carburettor is in itself enough of a chore, since there is just about no room at all between the what my statistics professor calls "gi-normous" air filter (which sensible folk replace with a UNI filter or K&N) and the frame of the motorcycle.
However, this incident is a useful reminder that I should find a shorter screw and see if that fixes the problem of the sticky throttle. Otherwise, the carb cleaning really seemed to get the Letta's juices flowing. Carb-tuning on single-cylinder bikes is a much simpler affair than for twins.
Posted by Underblog at April 8, 2005 6:44 AM
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It helps that when I have just posted thinking I am being bike geeky, to come over here and see that I am not the only one.
Posted by: Natalie at April 8, 2005 1:44 PM