10-19-2023, 12:13 AM
Not sure this is mechanical/technical but I'll put it here anyway.
I bought my second 2013 standard a little over a year ago. It was in better shape than the first one but did normally idle high 1.9-2.1k or so. Occasionally it would come down for a bit but never really stay right. I thought it had to do with warming up or maybe outside temp. Basically I just dealt with it. It was really only bothersome at stop lights and pulling into the garage at night.
Suddenly things changed. About 6 weeks ago I got stuck in heavy stop-and-go traffic on 80 West in NJ heading to the Delaware Water Gap. It was pretty hot and I was on and off the clutch constantly. Pretty sore after a while. When I got out of the traffic and arrived at my meeting place, the idle was a nice low 900. Bike almost stalled in fact. I thought I had manifested another problem. Well to this day (no jinx), idle is perfect.
My half-brained theory: The woman I bought the bike from sold it because it was "too much for her." I think she was the second owner. It also came with loud yoshi exhaust. Some people like those I guess. I sold it and put the stock pipe back on. Maybe the first owner liked to hear the bike and revved it too much too often while at idle. Maybe the second owner wasn't a "perfect" rider and stalled too often from stops, so the bike "learned" her style and gave her extra gas when starting from a stop to help her not stall so much. Then after I had the bike for about 5k miles of absolute flawless riding, especially that trying day in traffic on 80, it learned that I don't need the extra gas to avoid stalling.
I'm pretty sure anthropomorphizing my CB doesn't provide the real answer. I'm just real happy to have a nice low idle back and super quiet bike.
I bought my second 2013 standard a little over a year ago. It was in better shape than the first one but did normally idle high 1.9-2.1k or so. Occasionally it would come down for a bit but never really stay right. I thought it had to do with warming up or maybe outside temp. Basically I just dealt with it. It was really only bothersome at stop lights and pulling into the garage at night.
Suddenly things changed. About 6 weeks ago I got stuck in heavy stop-and-go traffic on 80 West in NJ heading to the Delaware Water Gap. It was pretty hot and I was on and off the clutch constantly. Pretty sore after a while. When I got out of the traffic and arrived at my meeting place, the idle was a nice low 900. Bike almost stalled in fact. I thought I had manifested another problem. Well to this day (no jinx), idle is perfect.
My half-brained theory: The woman I bought the bike from sold it because it was "too much for her." I think she was the second owner. It also came with loud yoshi exhaust. Some people like those I guess. I sold it and put the stock pipe back on. Maybe the first owner liked to hear the bike and revved it too much too often while at idle. Maybe the second owner wasn't a "perfect" rider and stalled too often from stops, so the bike "learned" her style and gave her extra gas when starting from a stop to help her not stall so much. Then after I had the bike for about 5k miles of absolute flawless riding, especially that trying day in traffic on 80, it learned that I don't need the extra gas to avoid stalling.
I'm pretty sure anthropomorphizing my CB doesn't provide the real answer. I'm just real happy to have a nice low idle back and super quiet bike.