How do you hold the throttle on a motorcycle?
– Motorbike Writer Surely how you hold the motorcycle throttle should be simple and straightforward, but it’s not. Everyone agrees you should have a relaxed grip and never use the throttle to hold on to the bike. “Throttling” the throttle will lead to jerky acceleration over bumps and after some time it will cramp your hand.
How does carb effect throttle positions on a motorcycle?
Motorcycle carbs have a few circuits that effect different throttle positions. Pilot Circuit – small effect on idle. Higher effect at lower RPM’s with decreasing effect to full throttle Main Jet – Wide open. Fuel is metered through the main by the jet needle at different throttle positions.
What happens when the throttle gets stuck in an open position?
When the throttle gets stuck in an open position than your vehicle will receive too much air and cause it to have a high or fluctuating idle. What are signs of a bad Throttle Position Sensor? Acceleration issues: A bad TPS may cause all sorts of power issues. Your engine may start up but it will have little to no power and it causes it to shut off.
What causes a motorcycle to stall at idle?
Extremely lean motors can also stall out completely when given some light throttle. Another sign of lean running is the “hunting idle” where the motorcycle revs up randomly, changes RPMs, or takes forever to come down to idle.
Motorcycle carbs have a few circuits that effect different throttle positions. Pilot Circuit – small effect on idle. Higher effect at lower RPM’s with decreasing effect to full throttle Main Jet – Wide open. Fuel is metered through the main by the jet needle at different throttle positions.
Or, you could have air leaking around the throttle, just enough to lean it out at idle; the mounting boots could be the leak, or diaphragms in the carbs, that kind of thing. Wow, thanks both of you! I will try these things when my mechanic manual comes for this bike, the owners manual is like “here is the start button, a durr.”
How do you know when to start the throttle on a motorcycle?
You’re in a blind corner, wondering when you can start getting on the throttle. In the absence of other visual references, simply look at the horizon point where the two sides of the road appear to meet. If that point is holding a steady distance from you, the corner is continuing at a constant radius.
Why is my throttle cable going bad on my bike?
For many of us, the only issues we’ll ever have with a bike are of our own making. Up until very recently, most bikes have had at least two cables that can go bad and cause headaches: the throttle, and clutch cables. The throttle cable normally lets you know it’s going bad by refusing to snap back the throttle grip when it is turned and released.