73' CB350F | Starting issues and Acceleration issues (bike is sluggish now)

Hey there I hope everyone is having a nice Halloween weekend

So about a week ago my bike began having issues when kick starting it. Here's the weird thing about it...the issue would only happen after I shut it down momentarily. Now the trick to starting it up again would involve me pushing the electrical start, giving it throttle, and choking it a bit until it hits the sweet spot - then we're back on the road.

Again this issue never happens the next morning on my way to work. Only if I shut it momentarily and start it back up.

Last night I'm riding and approach a tee light , stop and then go to shift but the bike now feels sluggish. It couldn't even get out of 1 gear. Here I am flooring it and it finally gets to 3k rpm, I shift to 2nd - again I'm flooring this thing and the bike has no strength, hit 3k shift to 3rd....so on and forth I turned around and called it a night.

First time running into this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!



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Check Gas cap vent.
Check Cam chain tension.
Check fuel filter an petcock.


Where I'd start.

TheCoffeeGuy said:

Check Gas cap vent.
Check Cam chain tension.
Check fuel filter an petcock.


Where I'd start.

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Thank you very much!


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Could possibly be battery related. If you're not pulling enough current bike can act weird. Rev'ing it could give that charging boost needed to accelerate. Had a similar problem in the past. With same start issues, bike eventually deteriorated into the same running issue you described because I didn't address it and battery went critically low.


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