Thanks Gary. Could be, although when this first happened last summer, and I really thought it was a fuel related issue, I drained the carbs (nothing), and pulled the airbox back to get the carbs loose (what a pain), and pulled that little filter (thanks to members here who had posted that before - maybe you). It really looked clear, clean and good at the time. That was at 9600 miles. I replaced the fuel line with clear hose and intended to install an in-line filter, bought all I found locally was too large, so I aborted that idea. I put the Pingle on while I was at it.
Now here I am at almost 14k, and I'm back to square one. I will say I have been on the bike every day this week except Monday. Made the bank run last night, so I must have put better than 200 miles on it - oops - it die on me once Thursday night on I-10 in VERY slow traffic coming home. Was in first or second gear, probably less than 20 mph at the time, and suddenly she just felt anemic - no power, just before she died. Cranked right back up though.
It does surge some at low speeds in 1st or 2nd (like trying to keep rolling in slow traffic). I attribute that to a tuning issue that may be best discussed in another thread.
I have my airbox and filter drilled (1 1/2"?) and stock pipes, with one shim under the needles. It may be constipated.
My dieing problem started before I drilled the airbox and filter though - it was bone stock. The first time it happened was the Sunday before Father's Day, and I cut the box/filter the following Saturday, and it liked to killed me getting home that Sunday, dieing several times on the same trips both those days. And then 4k miles with nothing.
