Due to some unfortunate financial circumstances, I could no longer take my bike out on the road so I put it in the garage and there it sat. Well I can ride it again now but it sat in the garage for about a year. So I tried it out, dead battery. I got the new battery, put it in, now it will only start if the choke is on and then its a very rough idle and if I try to give it even the slightest amount of gas, it dies. I put some sea foam in the tank hoping to clean out the carbs but it still won't catch on unless the choke is on and I am unable to give it any gas. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm really itching to get back out on this.

Thank you in advance.

 

clean your carbs. check ur plugs

 

Any chance I could get a link to instructions on cleaning carbs/plugs? It would be greatly appreciated.

 

You can check the manuals section in the gen discussion, not sure if the 500 was listed or not now.
If not, I can scan some stuff if needed

 

Ah thank you. This is great.

 

Jets plugged......