cricket
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Hello,
I hate making the first post to a forum a technical question, but here it goes . . .
In the last couple of months I have encountered an issue with throttle response when taking off from idle on my 07 FZ1 (CA model). The way I initially noticed this issue was after splitting lanes to the front of a light, and then having the bike sputter and protest when I started off. Even more dismaying was that the power came on about a second or two later with its normal gusto.
It happened again at the next light, so I started running through the events that could have lead up to the problem.
1. I had just been riding continuously at freeway speeds for approximately 17 miles.
2. The weather was rather warm, 80s possibly low 90s.
So I took the bike into the shop, since it is my daily driver an I figured I wanted it taken care of quickly (fail).
After going over the bike and then performing a light tune up. The problem persisted.
Took it to another shop, same deal. They did turn up the idle, but the problem turned up again.
Recently I noticed a correlation that I had not before. It never happens while the bike is not on idle or coming off idle. This only seems to happen when the bike idles for a period long enough to have the fan come on and then the throttle is engaged, leading me to believe that there could be an issue with maintaining idle while the fan is drawing power. The problem does not persist longer than 2-3 seconds after coming off idle.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Any insight is greatly appreciated. If this issue has been documented previously I apologize, I skimmed the threads in this section, but did not find any issues that seemed the same.
Thanks!
I hate making the first post to a forum a technical question, but here it goes . . .
In the last couple of months I have encountered an issue with throttle response when taking off from idle on my 07 FZ1 (CA model). The way I initially noticed this issue was after splitting lanes to the front of a light, and then having the bike sputter and protest when I started off. Even more dismaying was that the power came on about a second or two later with its normal gusto.
It happened again at the next light, so I started running through the events that could have lead up to the problem.
1. I had just been riding continuously at freeway speeds for approximately 17 miles.
2. The weather was rather warm, 80s possibly low 90s.
So I took the bike into the shop, since it is my daily driver an I figured I wanted it taken care of quickly (fail).
After going over the bike and then performing a light tune up. The problem persisted.
Took it to another shop, same deal. They did turn up the idle, but the problem turned up again.
Recently I noticed a correlation that I had not before. It never happens while the bike is not on idle or coming off idle. This only seems to happen when the bike idles for a period long enough to have the fan come on and then the throttle is engaged, leading me to believe that there could be an issue with maintaining idle while the fan is drawing power. The problem does not persist longer than 2-3 seconds after coming off idle.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Any insight is greatly appreciated. If this issue has been documented previously I apologize, I skimmed the threads in this section, but did not find any issues that seemed the same.
Thanks!