We hadn't even pulled out of the neighborhood yet when we heard the wind being sucked into my buddies engine so it was a quick trip back to the driveway, break out the tool kit and try to figure out what the source of the problem was. Off comes the seat, the air filter cover, check the lines, check this, check that put it all back together and we get the same result.
I'm sure if we would have not been in a rush to get on the road we would have/could have figured out the problem in just a moment or two. As luck would have it we were in a hurry to leave. We all desperately wanted to beat the 3.5 million people that were going to clog the highways leading out of the "Valley of the Sun" and start heading north to cooler weather. I'm sure my buddies stress level was starting to rise; here we were - the entire group - trying to get on the road and we needed to fix his bike before we could even leave the familiar surroundings of the stucco clad houses that are our neighborhood.
We found the problem after 30 minutes or more of searching. On his bike there is an air intake tube that runs under his tank towards the neck of the bike. On that tube, there is a rubber boot that connects it to the carb; correction... is supposed to connect it to the carb. Once we found the issue we quickly re-connected it and we were off.
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