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A few from our Labor Day weekend

Saaweeet! Thanks Quadnut

Welcome aboard. I'm pretty new here too

Thanks Hangingon. Here's the original picture I chopped that from

Throwing sand, of course!

^ partially right < will ride a Kawie tomorrow but might tune on a Yamaha v night owl?

Yes Sir it was

Went out slingin sand in the Oregon Dunes on Friday. A friend's 450R in Florence, OR.

Sorry man I didn't see this before. Mrs. Senator is the head of the Paint-Color-Selection Department at our house and she says, yes, they can make any color you want. Sorry not a V-nose.

This one really shows how steep these dunes can get!

Is that Killpecker too?

Welcome aboard man

We're headed to Christmas Valley, OR

You're welcome. Thanks for all those sweet intro threads with pics from all your recent rides!

Welcome aboard ACLakey

No matter which route you take from I-5 to the coast, there will be small mountain passes that the KIA may not like LOL!

Welcome aboard dcata

Yep, I know Craig. He's a great dude...also cool is the one who know everything ha ha ha. We've broken bread with them a few times. A group to which he belongs, the SandWizards, is involved in the setup of one of the cleanups in the Oregon Dunes that runs at the end of April every year.

Thanks guys. The Oregon Dunes are so beautiful that you might be hard pressed to take a bad one

Thanks guys

Right on man. Carbs are simple in principle…but can be complicated in execution ha ha ha. When you put the choke "ON", what you're doing is opening up an additional circuit through which fuel can flow. This gives the engine the additional fuel it needs for combustion to occur at lower temperatures. A properly jetted engine should have a hard time burning all the fuel it sucks in with choke on after it’s warmed up. In your case it sounds like there isn’t enough fuel getting through to the combustion chamber without the utilization of an open choke circuit. That likely means that the idle circuit (the gas flowing through the pilot jet AND through the gap between the main jet and the needle in it) is insufficient. A larger main jet will put more room between its inside diameter and outside diameter of the needle, which is one way to increase the flow of fuel at idle. Increasing the pilot jet is another. Or there could be an unnatural blockage like sand, etc wadded up in the either of the jets or around the needle that is reducing the flow.

You may have the carb as clean as it's going to get and just need richer jetting Even though it sounds more like a blockage somewhere in the idle circuit, it would be a shame to overlook an obvious solution, right?