New Bike Hesitating / Sputtering

[jwoods986_imp]

CB11 Team, I picked up a '14 DLX today, brand new, been sitting on the showroom floor with gas in tank since June 2014. 16 - test miles - on the odometer.

The bike runs pretty good at higher rpms, but at low speed when I accelerate from around 2,000-3,000 rpm up from 2nd and 3rd gear, bike seems to sputter and hesitate.

I spoke to the mechanic at the dealer, over 1 1/2 hours away, he said that before I picked up the bike today, he drained the gas from the tank and lines and put new in. He said the bike "needs to have a few tankfulls of gas run through it". He said he did not clean the injectors - whatever that would mean . . .

Does this seem right guys - the new DLX CB11 simply needs gas run through it to "clean it up" from sitting so long or is this "baloney"?

Please let me know what y'all think.

Trey in Houston

Haven't read through all the replies yet, but your description is exactly what I had, so I'll just reply to your first post. I bought my CB last Friday from a H-D dealer with the intention of riding it back to work, then picking up my car that night. I didn't even get a mile from the dealer before I turned around. It was sputtering and jerky, and the idle was fluctuating wildly at rest (it caught me out once and I stalled it). I know this bike had been there for a few months. The salesman had just filled-up the tank, but he gave it to one of their mechanics who recently came over from a powersports dealer that sold Jap bikes. He thought it was old gas at the bottom of the tank and they added a FI cleaner of some sort, something-44, then he took off on it. I had to get back to work. I picked the bike up Monday, there were 1 or 2 slight hesitations in the first couple miles, but it's been like butter since.

Quick update on this gents. Bike has been at a local Honda dealer for repair since Monday, and they confirmed bike running rough and misfiring on one or more cylinders - this on a bike with five zero miles on the odo (had 26 on it when I bought it new . . . ). They've ordered plugs to begin the diagnosis, and said the new plugs won't arrive until perhaps next week. After installing new plugs, they said they would continue the diagnosis.

So we'll see what happens. Surely I'm disappointed since this is a brand new bike with a brand new price, but I'm hoping for the best. Cautiously optimistic this will be an easy fix.

Will keep you posted.

I guess I should have read through the thread before replying, sounds like yours is more serious. Just curious, did they try a FI cleaner?

At least yours is brand new, under warranty, and from a Honda dealer. Mine isn't, and I was @~*^ting bricks initially because I had written the check, initialed the "As-Is" part of the contract, and left the (Harley) dealer. Luckily, it all worked out for me. Good luck on yours!