The DR650 thread

**The Pastor** · 5th October 2011, 15:29

my bikes a bit hard to start when cold,

always have to use the choke, even if sitting in a warm garage.

always takes a long time to get going, holding the starter in for a solid 10-15 seconds with NO throttle, usually dose it after 3 or 4 attempts to start.

Is this typical? Apart from the spark plug, what other things can I look at to fix this? Or is this normal starting behaviour?

**Monstaman** · 5th October 2011, 16:16

Originally Posted by renegade master

Or is this normal starting behaviour?

Mine does the same eh but always goes, my battery is gettin down a bit tho.

**bart** · 5th October 2011, 16:44

If mines been sitting a while, a couple of small blips on the throttle to get some fresh gas through, full choke, and she'll fire every time.

Fuel goes off real quick these days. With my old DRZ400, I'd often have to manually drain the carb if sitting for more than a week.

**NordieBoy** · 5th October 2011, 18:00

Yep. A couple of blips of throttle on the pumper carb and it's away. No choke, even in the winter.

I can only pull the choke on about 3mm anyway...

**MXNUT** · 5th October 2011, 18:10

Originally Posted by renegade master

my bikes a bit hard to start when cold,

always have to use the choke, even if sitting in a warm garage.

always takes a long time to get going, holding the starter in for a solid 10-15 seconds with NO throttle, usually dose it after 3 or 4 attempts to start.

Is this typical? Apart from the spark plug, what other things can I look at to fix this? Or is this normal starting behaviour?

Pretty common complaint on all Suzuki`s that dont have a pumper carb.
Seems to take a lot of cranking to get the fuel sucked up into the carb air stream.

With a pumper carb as nordie says, 2 twists of the throttle and they fire into life straight away.

**The Pastor** · 5th October 2011, 20:22

Originally Posted by MXNUT

Pretty common complaint on all Suzuki`s that dont have a pumper carb.
Seems to take a lot of cranking to get the fuel sucked up into the carb air stream.

With a pumper carb as nordie says, 2 twists of the throttle and they fire into life straight away.

ah, so its a fuel/carby issue. Not really much I can do there?

**NordieBoy** · 6th October 2011, 15:19

Anyone watch Qi last night?

Alan Davis (Jonathan Creek) has just had his DR650 stolen.

**Eddieb** · 6th October 2011, 17:07

Originally Posted by Monstaman

Running a combo of 14/44 and 15/44 I think will be ok, ultimately for total chain and sprocket life odd would be best but ya can't deign ya life around total engineering perfection.

pete-blen, do you know what the % of wear running odds to evens is compared to odds to odds?

At the bottom of the page on gearingcommander.com it gives some comparisons between the different gearing sets you have entered.

**Night Falcon** · 6th October 2011, 17:35

Sorry to interupt all the valuable correspondance on this thread, but I thought it was about time someone chucked a picture on it for those of us who....well....only look at the pictures

me trusty old DR...we used to make beautiful music together

**gav24** · 6th October 2011, 19:00

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Anyone watch Qi last night?

Alan Davis (Jonathan Creek) has just had his DR650 stolen.

Surprised he had one, as they dont officially import them to the UK... must have been looking on here before purchasing his grey import and decided it was a better choice than a KLR...

...wrong choice, the theives would have walked past the KLR...

**NordieBoy** · 6th October 2011, 20:08

Originally Posted by Night Falcon

Sorry to interupt all the valuable correspondance on this thread, but I thought it was about time someone chucked a picture on it for those of us who....well....only look at the pictures

me trusty old DR...we used to make beautiful music together

Banjo music of course for a yank DR650.