why is the g2 so cold natured

[96gs]

Is yalls gs as cold natured as mine. every time i pull it out of my garage to go for a ride i have to choke for about 15 minutes. even while im riding and that  makes it kinda hard to brake. is it just the gs's nature to be so cold or is something wrong?

[scratch]

Mine was, until I pulled the little brass plugs over the pilot mixture screws and screwed them out one and a half turns (about 2 1/2 turns total). I also, have a CA model, so I had to replace the pilot jets with size 40 non-bleeder type pilot jets. Get yourself a small screw extractor ( Sear's has a new tool ) and drill out the little hole already in the plugs and use the screw extractor to remove the plugs.

[The Buddha]

40 pilots and 3 turns on mix screw... Like he said but the US bikles had 37.5 not just CA. CA bikes just had 5 degree advancers against the rest of US's 12, the extra screwing reserved just for the CA bikes...I have one too having just moved from there....
Cool.
Srinath.

[Von Vester]

My GS ('93') is exactly the same way. Tough to start, needs lots of choke. If I don't give it a good warm up I have to ride with the choke on for about 5 minutes. During the warm-up period the engine wants to die if I don't work the throttle at a stop.

However, once the engine is warm it runs like a Swiss watch and idles perfectly without milking the throttle.

[scratch]

40 pilots and 3 turns on mix screw... Like he said but the US bikles had 37.5 not just CA. CA bikes just had 5 degree advancers against the rest of US's 12, the extra screwing reserved just for the CA bikes...I have one too having just moved from there....
Cool.
Srinath.

Oh yeah, I forgot. Thank you for the reminder.

[The Antibody]

Don't leave the bike idling with the choke on for more than a minute or two. It could foul the plugs.

 -Anti