The Saga of the Little 500 That Could (Poor acceleration problem)

[Phil B]

Alright...so, I eventually gave in and took my bike to the shop.  After all of the waiting, I'm finally back in action using my GS as a daily driver.

It turns out, the guy I bought the bike from had the wrong size pilot and main gets in the carbs.

Possibly it was "right" while he (or previous owner!) rode it, but bike was "returned to stock config" for the sale... except for the jets :-/

[NicroHobak]

Possibly it was "right" while he (or previous owner!) rode it, but bike was "returned to stock config" for the sale... except for the jets :-/

Very true...bad word choice on my part.

It was actually "right" when I first had it, and that's why I didn't think I would need to do anything with jets except clean them, etc.  I was kinda figuring that I simply had one problem, then I started to "fix" another and threw the whole thing out of whack because I probably readjusted something to stock settings before I actually fixed the original problem.  The net result would be similar to what I experienced, I think.