bbelk wrote:justoneoftheguys wrote:
How was it on the flat? Did it pull well?
As well as it ever has. It ran fine then and now, the roads were just steep and the air was thin.
But while we are on the subject - I will be spending awhile at high altitude. What do I do to the carburators to make them happy. The bike was very hard to start cold above 8,000 foot
You will need to get good at removing the tops of your carburetors and adjusting needle position.
That or swapping out main jets.
When the air gets thin, you need less gasoline to keep the ratio the same.
And while the R65's lesser performance is acceptable in many situations, two-up for touring in the high altitudes is not one of them - even when jetted correctly.
An R60/6 might be the superior motorcycle here.
Experiment with your enrichment circuit control (choke).
Try not using any at all, to just enough to get the engine to catch and then backing it off quickly - but not all the way!
Because of the thinner air, you don't need to be adding any extra fuel to the already rich mix.
I've only had my R65 out to Colorado once, and that was in 1984. I don't remember any real issues.
