well its good to know your ok . cant say the same somuch for stray naw hes ok ill let him tell the story . but . at least you finaly said somthing i'm guessing from the austin area code you tryed to call me huh ?  oh well we will be back in town by tommrow ttyl

Quote from: FearedGS500 on March 18, 2006, 07:52:56 PM
well its good to know your ok . cant say the same somuch for stray naw hes ok ill let him tell the story . but . at least you finaly said somthing i'm guessing from the austin area code you tryed to call me huh ?  oh well we will be back in town by tommrow ttyl

Yeah, that was me. I should have left a message, but eh. I left on on stray's (Mark's) phone. Anyways, show me the bill and I'll figure out how much I owe for missing out.

I seriously thought it was next week because I was talking on here about having to skip my last class on Friday, and since this is Spring Break right now I had no classes, so whoops!! I went camping with my girlfriend instead. Sorry guys, but camping with her was better than going riding with y'all! 

grrrrrrrrrrrrr ok sooo i made it home ................ after my bike desided it hated me ! . crusing along at 90 mph . just going along . starts to cut out like i need to turn my res. on . as i do this . it dose not get any better. it gets real jerky and just pretty much gives up . i pull off .. wait a sec. it starts back up and gose a few more feet before it dose it again . i make some phone calls and i was told to check they spark plugs make sure they dont have any thing on them bla bla bla. got lucky some guys stoped gave me a ride back to austin ( thats where they where headed . can you say super lucky ? )  have my grandmother meet me at the taco cabona and i get the bike in the back i was like ... hrmm i'll see how it runs now . starts right up runs like theres nothing wrong !!! so i figure i got a bad batch of gas . me and chris's bikes where acting kinda funny the whole weekend. i hope he makes it home with no issues

Quote from: FearedGS500 on March 19, 2006, 03:48:50 PM
grrrrrrrrrrrrr ok sooo i made it home ................ after my bike desided it hated me ! . crusing along at 90 mph . just going along . starts to cut out like i need to turn my res. on . as i do this . it dose not get any better. it gets real jerky and just pretty much gives up . i pull off .. wait a sec. it starts back up and gose a few more feet before it dose it again . i make some phone calls and i was told to check they spark plugs make sure they dont have any thing on them bla bla bla. got lucky some guys stoped gave me a ride back to austin ( thats where they where headed . can you say super lucky ? )  have my grandmother meet me at the taco cabona and i get the bike in the back i was like ... hrmm i'll see how it runs now . starts right up runs like theres nothing wrong !!! so i figure i got a bad batch of gas . me and chris's bikes where acting kinda funny the whole weekend. i hope he makes it home with no issues

That's the common GS fuel starvation problem. The bike drains the carb's float bowls faster than it can fill them and it acts like it is running out of gas. What you should have done was switch over to PRI and it would have run fuel directly to the carbs, therefore bypassing the fuel starvation.

nope wrong answer my friend. thats what it hought to . thats what i did . nothing . i just got the bike unloaded a few min. ago ad it started right up . but after a few secondos it started to not run again . just sitting there . so what i'm gonna do is drain the fuel and put in some new stuff and see what happens if that dont work . it looks like i'm going to suziki to battle with them ! but i'm pretty sure its the gas . because both mine and css's bikes where acting up . so i hope he made it home . and i hope they did not hit that chevron up that i did . i was gonna go for the shell but they where not open yet :| small towns not opening any thing up by 6am !! whats wrong with them !!!

Just met up with stray for some dinner, and talked with him 'bout riding and stuff and the accident and his bike. It didn't look too bad, just a few standard bent parts. I'm gonna help him out as best I can with my spare parts. Lookin' forward to actually making a ride with y'all sometime in the future! 

hehe yaaa where a fun bunch . i think big bend needs to be a yearly thing . me ,css,stray   got some bugs fixed on what we need to bring and be ready for and what time we leave and make sure everyone has what they need before we leave . big bend was fun we need to meet up and do it again so that stray, you (alpha),budrick can get to ride river road. i dont know about css but liked it . (besides the fact the speedlimit was 45 and i was doing 70-80 for most the part i had some spots where i was only doing 60 ) but i would have much rather raced my way threw there all the little ups and downs . would have had the front wheel off the ground a few times i look forward to doing it again !

I got home around 9:00PM.
I ended up fixing my bike on the side of the road cut out and I could not go much over 45mph. I tried prime and reserve and it would not work any better.
I had white stuff on everything including the jets and the gaskets.  Feared, you might want to try cleaning your jets and everything else in there but if you do there is a lot of fuel in the bottom of the carabrators, I got gas all over everything when I opened them. The one thing I never cleaned is the fuel filter I could not find it, traced the lines from the tank to the reserve switch to the carbarators.

Feared, the map you left in the Hotel room, you left it there again on Sunday so I have it now. Not sure if it is worth trying to get it to you.

Next time I will bring a cell phone charger, a second set of batteries for the flash light.  Not much light coming from it by the time I finished putting my bike together. I only had one extra part, an o-ring about three inches in diameter, any clue what that is for?

Also I will bring Alen wrenches, whoever picked the tools for the tool kit should try taking out Alen head screws with a Philip screwdriver.

Mark, How is your bike running?

I think the bad gas was from the stop before the crappy station we stopped at because I thought I was running out of gas
Then I think I sucked the rest up when I switched to reserve since we had been stopping for gas often as a group.
Is that what happened to you Feared?

YES !!  thats what happend to me . so you just cleaned it all and put new fuel in it and that fixed it ?  i seen that my spark plug had a white haz on it andi thought it was bad gas. i best your right it had to have been that last stop :| cuz mine did the same thing . it started jumping like crazy cut out and that was about it ..... i got lucky and some guys came threw that where going to austin, and picked me and my bike up and hauled me to austin . so i got supper lucky ..... gald you got home i was worryed

**edit*** get me a pic of that o-ring and i might be able to tell you what it is**

Hey, I'm back. I spent the night in Austin, so I got back to Houston on Monday.
I had no fuel starvation issues, because I dont have the vacuum petcock deal. My fuel is gravity fed with a little plastic ON/OFF petcock on the hose. This also means I dont have a reserve tank, so when I run out of gas, that's it. And now since my trip odo is broken it's really hard to tell how much gas I've got left. Also, when I got close to Houston it was getting dark and my speedo bulb was burnt out, so I couldn't tell how fast I was going. Then my tach cable popped out, so I was just riding by the seat of my pants.
So now I'm wondering how to fix the trip odometer, I don't see how to take apart the speedometer without breaking it apart. Also, if I get a whole new speedo, what do I do about the odometer reading? What are the legal rammifications of that?

Anyway, here are some pics, I'll post more detailed pics of the damage, later.

Some more

i really like that last one with hour bikes then the long stright road and texas size mountins

Awww man, what happened stray? Hope your ok, I didn't see any detail of an accident that happened. Yeah guys, maybe next time.

waaaaahoooooo its running like a champ can u say bad gas it was pee yellow 

ooooooooookkkkkkkkk guys .. i think we should plan another ride to big bend !!!! i love it down there . it was fun ( minus when stray wnet down ) so when do you guys think would be another good day to go ? maybe .. oct. of this year .or march of next year again ? i know stray really wants to go back .. or i figured it he would cuz he did not get to ride it      and alapha over here kicked us to the curb for his GF ... i just think he was like ... hrmmm big bend or weekend with the gf .... and the gf won    but itssss ok .. maybe we can all go again and have a better time .. and i seen there was a guy from mexico . maybe he could join us in bigbend ( might have some issues getting him back to the motel .. seeing how they have radom check points ) soooo give me some imput . now that we have an idea of what we need and what we need to watch our for

Yea, I'd be up for another trip at some point. Although maybe there's some other locations around TX worth checking out.
Maybe next time when we go to Big Bend we could have a more relaxed schedule and take a more scenic route, instead of following I-10 for 6 hours.

aww man you mean you did not enjoy that !?

Well, it was cool the first time. Especially once we got out into the desert.
But still, it would be nice to change up the route, next time.

yeaa .. next time we will have to ride up to the hill country .. i'll do some research and see if i can find any thing