Bandit 250 starting problems

[Dick Dangleberry]

Hi guys.

If I've stuck this in the wrong thread my apologies. "General" seemed as close as I could get to "Vague to no knowledge of bike workings"

I've a 1990 suz gsf250. Had it for 5 months and have had a bit of a 'mare with it. After about a month Carb kit was needed and choke control f'd out (I now use a keyring).

Now having problems starting it. I've had man flu for a week and have not attempted to ride until today. Had real difficult trouble to get it started and when it does it will die straight away if I'm not giving it a small amount of rev's. Choke doesn't seem to help at all and with while I am giving it revs and the sound is more burbly and soft than it usually sounds.

Any advise would be awesome.

Cheers

[Squiggles]

Burbly... Running on less than 4 perhaps. These bikes seem to be a bitch to start after even short downtimes

[ruinedinc]

yea dude i've had two problems with mine. 1st one was that the carbs were dirty and it was running on two cylinders, 2nd one is recent... the choke seized. that's what the mechanic told me anyway and apparently it's sorted now im pickin it up tomorrow. will let ya know more bout it when i get full details tomorrow...

[Dare]

Had real difficult trouble to get it started and when it does it will die straight away if I'm not giving it a small amount of rev's. Choke doesn't seem to help at all and with while I am giving it revs and the sound is more burbly and soft than it usually sounds.

Any advise would be awesome.

Cheers

Increase your idle before you start it? Mines set maybe 300rpm more for winter. My chokes out sO I have some trouble starting it, no/tiny bit of throttle and when it catches let it warm a little b/c an instant rev will kill it...

[CookMySock]

Sounds to me like a faulty choke.

Steve

[ruinedinc]

yea my choke cable seized and now i've got a cable tie tied to the choke mechanism to help pull it open. darn it i though i'd know more bout it but i don't... sorry man but yea i agree with dangerousbastard and i think its a choke problem

[ducatilover]

Faulty choke, or an intake leak.