09-22-2013, 11:48 PM
Check the colour, see if they are showing signs of excess fuel or oil (highly unlikely but hey, things happen).
Bike performance can go south fairly slow so it can actually be in a very poor state of tune and it may not have hit your radar yet. Many tales of guys taking their "perfectly running" machine to emissions only to find them out of whack. Emissions (no longer required in Phoenix) was a cheap way to find out if your bike was up to snuff or not.
Unless you get a NOX sniffer and test yourself you won't know now.
Naturally some of the older "performance" bikes needed to run on the rich side to run properly. Now guys don't have to rejet them just for testing then jet them back.
I use mileage tracking on my car. Mileage goes to pot (like on our trip this summer; needed to replace the brand new air filter after all the corn and sorghum pollen clogged it) and you know something is amiss. Very good tool, but I don't put the miles on the bikes for this to be a good one for me. More sensitive than seat of the pants for sure.
Bike performance can go south fairly slow so it can actually be in a very poor state of tune and it may not have hit your radar yet. Many tales of guys taking their "perfectly running" machine to emissions only to find them out of whack. Emissions (no longer required in Phoenix) was a cheap way to find out if your bike was up to snuff or not.
Unless you get a NOX sniffer and test yourself you won't know now.
Naturally some of the older "performance" bikes needed to run on the rich side to run properly. Now guys don't have to rejet them just for testing then jet them back.
I use mileage tracking on my car. Mileage goes to pot (like on our trip this summer; needed to replace the brand new air filter after all the corn and sorghum pollen clogged it) and you know something is amiss. Very good tool, but I don't put the miles on the bikes for this to be a good one for me. More sensitive than seat of the pants for sure.