Yesterday I went to the dealers I used to work in to take my dad's Suzuki Address 110 in to swap it for a Yamaha Virago 535 he'd bought the week before.
Taking the scooter in went fine, but taking the Virago home was a bit of an issue.
Getting out of Bridgend, everything seem fine, more power than I expected.
The low down torque is quite impressive for a 535cc v-twin, overtakes were easily done, but then came the problem.
I pulled off a roundabout onto a dual carriageway into lane 2 to overtake a couple of cars and just after 60mph she started to bog down, stutter, pop and intermittently run on one cylinder.
Changing up and down resulted in backfires.
Pulling away from junctions would require nearly full throttle to crawl from 25mph up to 35mph and that was it.
but then 100yards later she'd start to clear her throat and run lovely again for a mile or so, then repeated the surging, power loss, popping, running on one cylinder.
I took it for a run up the motorway but to no avail.
Took it back to the dealers, who were quite apologetic and it now back in their workshop for a fuel system drain and clean.
I half expected problems with fuel. It's a 1997 bike with less than 6k miles, had done about 400 miles since 2009. But had a major carb rebuild in 2020, which I was hoping would mean she'd run well.
Seems there is crud/rust in the fuel tanks that was dislodged on my longer ride that wasn't dislodged by the 1-2 miles the workshops techs will do on a PDI.
Fingers crossed it'll all be fine for next weekend now.
