Need help ASAP!!

[st8]

'83 650 with 10k miles

I rode the bike 300 miles south two weeks ago. I left it at my in laws lake house to do the a favor and switch some vehicles back and forth and get the one they wanted down here. Drove down last night intending to ride my bike home this morning. Now it won't stay running.

It turns over and will idle. When it's warmed I can turn the choke off and it will continue to idle fine. However, once I drop it into first and attemp to engage the clutch and get going the rpm's go way down and it will die before I cam take off. On a couple of my attempts when I would shift it into first at a stand still it would make a skreetching sound (similar to that of trying to shift a manual car into gear without using the clutch)


EDIT: problem solved! Running great now :)

I am new to bikes and have only owned this bike for two months. It has never done this before.

All the obvious things I checked for: gas on, I'm using the clutch properly, plenty of fuel, etc.

Any help would be appreciated

[jerjohn]

Could be your clutch. Hows your oil level? Also, you might want to post in the crisis forum so more people will see it.

[Brittles]

Have you tried getting the rpm's up higher before slowly releasing the clutch lever? I bought a bike last year that did the same thing your describing. The seller told me it was a clutch problem. Turns out there was nothing wrong with the clutch, it was the carbs.

[edac]

old gas?

[TDodge7]

are all the exhaust pipes getting hot ? It could be idling on 3 cylinders or something and that will do horrible things for you in the power department , it would probably run well enough to idle but as soon as you try to go it'll konk out unless you give it everything it's got.

[st8]

Cleaned up the carbs and she started right up. Rode about 50 miles to make sure everything was good to go. Crisis avoided! Thanks for all the suggestions