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I'm new to the buell scene so please excuse my lame questions. I live in South Florida and we've been freezing in the 50's this past week haha. So I took this 2009 buell xb12r out that we just bought to ride as father/son. I took it off the rear stand and it was in N but when I tried to roll forward it acted like it was in gear and then after a harder push forward it popped into N all the way. Then after I let it warm up, it seemed to be idling very low. Just at 1k rpms and I stalled it at a light. After that, I kept the revs higher at each pull away and made it around town ok. Maybe because of the cold it was idling less? I looked in the manual and it says that it can't be adjusted. Is that true? I WAS going to take it to the dealer for the standard 1,000 mile check but I didn't want to pay $300+ for an idle adjustment..yeah they were going to adjust my non-adjustable idle. What's the truth? Adjustable or not? And maybe it could have been idling slow because I have a Jardine pipe on it without the insert so quite a bit of back pressure is lost? Anyone who's good with these bikes please feel free to inform me. Thanks

<blockquote data-quote="bigwake" data-source="post: 80231" data-attributes="member: 5657"><p>I&#039;m new to the buell scene so please excuse my lame questions.&nbsp; I live in South Florida and we&#039;ve been freezing in the 50&#039;s this past week haha.&nbsp; So I took this 2009 buell xb12r out that we just bought to ride as father/son.&nbsp; I took it off the rear stand and it was in N but when I tried to roll forward it acted like it was in gear and then after a harder push forward it popped into N all the way.&nbsp; Then after I let it warm up, it seemed to be idling very low.&nbsp; Just at 1k rpms and I stalled it at a light.&nbsp; After that, I kept the revs higher at each pull away and made it around town ok.&nbsp; Maybe because of the cold it was idling less?&nbsp; I looked in the manual and it says that it can&#039;t be adjusted.&nbsp; Is that true?&nbsp; I WAS going to take it to the dealer for the standard 1,000 mile check but I didn&#039;t want to pay $300+ for an idle adjustment..yeah they were going to adjust my non-adjustable idle.&nbsp; What&#039;s the truth?&nbsp; Adjustable or not?&nbsp; And maybe it could have been idling slow because I have a Jardine pipe on it without the insert so quite a bit of back pressure is lost?&nbsp; Anyone who&#039;s good with these bikes please feel free to inform me.&nbsp; Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bigwake, post: 80231, member: 5657"] I'm new to the buell scene so please excuse my lame questions. I live in South Florida and we've been freezing in the 50's this past week haha. So I took this 2009 buell xb12r out that we just bought to ride as father/son. I took it off the rear stand and it was in N but when I tried to roll forward it acted like it was in gear and then after a harder push forward it popped into N all the way. Then after I let it warm up, it seemed to be idling very low. Just at 1k rpms and I stalled it at a light. After that, I kept the revs higher at each pull away and made it around town ok. Maybe because of the cold it was idling less? I looked in the manual and it says that it can't be adjusted. Is that true? I WAS going to take it to the dealer for the standard 1,000 mile check but I didn't want to pay $300+ for an idle adjustment..yeah they were going to adjust my non-adjustable idle. What's the truth? Adjustable or not? And maybe it could have been idling slow because I have a Jardine pipe on it without the insert so quite a bit of back pressure is lost? Anyone who's good with these bikes please feel free to inform me. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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