New 2004 and cold blooded and first service...

[Badger]

its ~$80

<-- passes out

[aevans17]

MStamer,
My bike has the same problems as you are describing. It's a 2004. I bought it from a dealership slightly used (had 233 miles on it). I first adjusted the idle stop screw in order to get it to start. That helped a little, but then I noticed that once it got warmed up when I let go of the throttle the RPMs would not come all the way down. I had to let the idle stop screw back out a little bit until I found the area where the RPM/throttle behaved as it should, and the RPM's at idle where at their highest (1200). Now I can get it to start just fine, but it takes quite a while to warm up. I usually leave the choke on for the first 5-10 minutes of a ride, and then make sure to turn it off. I know that my bike sat for sometime at the dealership so the carbs might be gummed up. Everyone on the site has also told me that the bike is built to run really lean and that a rejet will fix this problem. As soon as I run out of gas, I'm going to put carb cleaner in and see if that improves the situation at all. I'll let you know if it does.