The engine speed should fall to idle any time you apply the clutch. If it doesn't, there is still something amiss. Do you have the throttle cable adjusted to the tight end of the spec?
I keep asking that because that's literally the exact same problem I had with my '93 the first time I adjusted the cables. If I clutched in at speed the engine would settle at 2500-3000 RPM, if I slowed in gear to the point of nearly stalling it would idle as normal. -Kurt On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:02 PM, DoomSmt <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the delay. I haven't had a chance to try everything we have > discussed here. My throttle cable is fine. My choke lever would only stay > put if I held it in position. I think that may have led to me being > impatient and adjusting the idle before the engine was warm. I moved the > entire assembly right against the grip and now the lever stays where I put > it. > I did get the engine warmed up, doing its revving thing, and adjusted the > idle. That seemed to do the trick for a little while, but as soon as that > feeling of "I fixed it" really set in, it happened again. > I think it may have more to do with the way I was riding it. I am very new > to motorcycles, riding and wrenching. I kind of pinpointed exactly when it > would over rev. I was using the clutch to sort of coast either to slow > before downshifting or going downhill or anytime I didn't need to > accelerate. So I don't need to do that. I realized that if I let the engine > slow down on its own before squeezing the clutch it would stay <2000 rpm. > Basically I need to only use the clutch when I need to use it for what it > is used for... Whoodathought? > What any thoughts? Advice? > Was it just me all along or is there still an underlying issue here? > > Thanks! Glad to be a part of this group! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
