Chuck

The internals of the carbs looked spotless. The bowls had no residue. The bike sat no longer than it had before and it always ran fine. I have owned the bike since new with no problems. The idle adjustment screw and cable do work. I can increase the idle with the choke on and I checked to make sure it moved the linkage. It might be possible there is a vacuum problem but the hoses I checked all had vacuum. I am on the road for a few days and won't be able to check things until the weekend.

Thanks for the replies. I will give the idle jets another cleaning and go from there. I did run wire thru the center holes but not the cross drilled. I sprayed with carb cleaner. maybe that's where the problem is.

I did clean the idle jets. I was thinking it might be something with a fuel pump although normally fuel pump problems are noticed at higher flows and that works fine or something in the vacuum system? What forces the fuel at idle?

This is not the problem. I can turn it all the way and it still won't idle. If I keep the throttle open some I can keep it running. Other than that it will die.

Has anyone had problems with their bike not idleing? It runs fine with the choke on or above idle. I have cleaned the jets, run carb cleaner in the fuel and this has not made a difference. The bike is a 97 and only has 5.500 miles on it.