09-06-2024, 01:11 AM
In the old days, when things were fueled by carbs, things were different. Carbs are rather rudimentary as far as fueling goes, and things could run rich at low rpms causing carbon build up issues on the valves, heads and top of the pistons. In the old days an Italian Tune up or running it up to high revs for a period of time could actually do some good. My older brother, (rest in peace, he would be 86 now) a hot rodder from the 50's, white T shirts, tight jeans, a pack of Lucky's rolled up in his sleeve, black pointed shoes, greasy hair..you know the stereotype) used to do this, plus pour water down the carb to cause steam to burn off carbon and all kinds of things that aren't necessary in modern day fuel injected engines where computers control everything. Too, we are no longer burning leaded gasoline.
In fact a lot of people say modern motorcycles and cars are made to run lean at low rpms for emissions sake (I'm sure you've heard that..or you can google it) that you have to enrich them at low rpms for performance. Hence the popularity of power commanders etc. If you do research on all this, you'll find "discussions" on both sides of the issue.
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/does-...-too-lean/
Our bikes have sensors that measure everything important to running properly and compensate for it. It's why we don't have manual chokes anymore. We don't have to manually enrichen to start and then back off the choke as it warms up because the computers do it all for us.
m in sc is right, FI is very forgiving, and Honda does have brilliant engineers. They have taken all this tuning crap out of the inexperienced person's hands, and put it in the hands of computers, sensors and micro processors. We start the bike, we ride the bike. The computers control all the aspects of fueling.
Can you run it hard? Sure the computer compensates for that. Can you ride it easy? Sure the computer compensates for that.
At your age I was still in the " let's see what this thing can do" phase. At 74 I'm in the "I'm just going to ride the thing and let the fi and computers take care of it phase. We have quite a few guys on here with between 75,000 and 150,000 miles on them. No motor issues with their bikes. I'm sure my CB 1100 motor will still be going strong long after I am worm bait. It's how motorcycles are made these days. You may have an electrical malfunction, a sensor, or ECU or something might fail, But the motors internals will still be running strong.
In fact a lot of people say modern motorcycles and cars are made to run lean at low rpms for emissions sake (I'm sure you've heard that..or you can google it) that you have to enrich them at low rpms for performance. Hence the popularity of power commanders etc. If you do research on all this, you'll find "discussions" on both sides of the issue.
https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/does-...-too-lean/
Our bikes have sensors that measure everything important to running properly and compensate for it. It's why we don't have manual chokes anymore. We don't have to manually enrichen to start and then back off the choke as it warms up because the computers do it all for us.
m in sc is right, FI is very forgiving, and Honda does have brilliant engineers. They have taken all this tuning crap out of the inexperienced person's hands, and put it in the hands of computers, sensors and micro processors. We start the bike, we ride the bike. The computers control all the aspects of fueling.
Can you run it hard? Sure the computer compensates for that. Can you ride it easy? Sure the computer compensates for that.
At your age I was still in the " let's see what this thing can do" phase. At 74 I'm in the "I'm just going to ride the thing and let the fi and computers take care of it phase. We have quite a few guys on here with between 75,000 and 150,000 miles on them. No motor issues with their bikes. I'm sure my CB 1100 motor will still be going strong long after I am worm bait. It's how motorcycles are made these days. You may have an electrical malfunction, a sensor, or ECU or something might fail, But the motors internals will still be running strong.