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A lot of gas contains ethanol now, and I understand that this is part of the problem if a bike is sitting too long (such as over the winter). The ethanol attracts water and if that helps to gum things up.
Your carbs are dirty and need to be cleaned. A tank of bad gas or old gas can gel up the jets. You buy gas, drive home, and when you get there the bike stops idling. Light gelling can be fixed by draining the carbs (screw on bottom of bowl), pulling the fuel line off the tank, and squirting some motorcycle carburetor cleaner down the fuel line. Plug the fuel line back in turn on the gas and start up the bike. If that doesn't work, using the same procedure buy some Chevron Techron fuels system cleaner, pour directly into the carbs and let sit over night (also drain tank and heavily treat one gallon of gas and put in tank) Fire up bike and let run ,idle, slow drive for 5 to ten minutes. This will usually get cycle idling without disassembling carbs. If it still wont idle you will have to take off the carbs, disassemble and clean blowing through the jets and jet passageways.
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Has your Honda had a tune-up lately? How many miles on it? Sounds like spark-plugs and spark plug wires...also Air Filter, and please add 1-2 bottles od Lucas Oil fuel injector cleaner to the gas tank...could be "old" gas also...and lastly a new or clean air filter...Hope this helps, these are not expensive parts.
Sounds like you need to have the carb jets cleaned. You can try seafoam that you add to fuel tank and ride it to see if that will clear it up, but I have had the same problem with my VF750C Honda Magna with only 8000miles and mine turns out to be fine tuning the injectors. This is only after the carbs have been reworked and cleaned.
clean that carb-pull float cover down and inspect--is the fawcett on prime then it will pour--chec oil for smell of gas or feels thin--engines need exercize like us to keep healthy
simply add a can of SEAFOAM(parts store) to a 1/2 tank of Premium gas, and let it idle for 5 minutes. You've got water and corn by product in your lines from the ethanol gas. Common problem now EGS(ethanol gas syndrome). Give it a chance to work.
Have a dealer or garage check your Oxygen (O2) sensor. As a quick fix, try disconnecting and reconnecting your car battery. Sometimes this will reset the check engine light.Good Luck!
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