If and when your bike gets flooded, open the throttle all the way until it starts and then let off the throttle asap. That has always worked for me. I heard it works on fuel injected bikes also. I have always had good luck with the full choke no throttle method myself
Jeff Rumer (Magilla) --- On Thu, 10/29/09, Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> wrote: From: Creative Residential Designs <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Surefire Start-up Method To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 12:47 PM I use half-choke and no throttle on both of my Hawks. Picky they are! HotrodMamma. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nighthawk Nathan" <[email protected]> To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:06 AM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Surefire Start-up Method > > Ok, now there may not be such thing as a "sure thing", but this piece > of advice from a fellow Honda rider has helped me a-lot. FULL-CHOKE > ---- NO-THROTTLE. Starting by 84 Nighthawk with the full choke no > throttle method has all but eliminated flooding the bike and the > sitting and waiting that went along with it. Also, it has helped my > cold starts. I used to use throttle and choke at the same time and > often would flood the bike. I know these bikes can be finicky at > times, but this method has helped me a bunch. Hope it can help someone > else. > > > Peace, > > Nighthawk Nathan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
