Idles fine, dies on throttle

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To anyone that can shed some light,

I have a 1993 suzuki GS 500, 12k miles  .

Bike went down about 2 weeks ago . After the bike went down, aside from a few cosmetic issues all was functioning well. About 3 days later(the first time back on bike after spill)  I was teaching some friends to ride, and it ran out of gas, down to the bone. Might have sucked some things into the engine, not sure (right before filling up, i noticed what looked like rust or flakes of metal floating in little remaining gas).

Either way upon leaving the gas station filled up with new gas, the bike would stall when given any throttle.

I made it home by opening up the choke and keeping the idle very high, and the bike drove fine (aside from the fact that as soon as i rolled the throttle it would stall).
Anyone every experience this, and can tell me if i can repair this myself?

FYI regarding my maintanance ability, i put a new choke cable on the bike myself, which was fairly easy, however shimming the carbs, and rebuilding them seems like a litte more than i can chew .

Rock on,
Mike
Mike@MikesPad.com

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Welcome!

Unfortuneatly, it sounds like the tank needs to be rinsed (with gas) and cleaned; the filter screen needs to be cleaned and the carbs may need to be cleaned of any additional flakes or debris that was floating in the tank.

Check your oil for gas, or the smell of gas.

You put in regular right?