Trouble starting cold - choke doesn't help

[ArizonaKev]

Hi everyone

It's been awhile since I've been on here, largely because my bike has been running awesome - until this morning anyway. I went out to start it after not having ridden it in about a week, and it just would not start. It was about 38 degrees, which isn't extremely cold, but cold for Phoenix.

I typically use the choke when it is cold, and don't have any issues. But this morning, it seemed like the bike was having a much harder time even turning over the more I put the choke on. With no choke at all, and no throttle, it would at least hit a few times and then die immediately. But with choke, it wouldn't hit at all, and sounded like it was killing the battery.

I checked some older posts on here, and I can't think of any advice that was previously given that I didn't try. I have been running some good Lucas carb cleaner in the gas about every 3rd of 4th tank, and up until this morning when I couldn't get it started, the bike has been running great.

Any ideas, advice, or wisdom from anyone out there? As always, it's greatly appreciated :2tup:


AzKev