Bought my venture used last dec,from a stealer, been work'n on the bike since i got released from the doc's. finaly got warm enough to sync carb's, really nwas'nt too far out, took it for a ride, did fine in 1st gear, not to bad in 2nd and then she falls flat on her face with nothin, barely runs? believe i have plugged fuel filter or maybe bad fuel pump, do more investigate'n to morrow, gonna check how fuel runs out of petcock also. bike only had 14,317 miles on it when i bought it,stealer did'nt have any gas in it when i got it,first thing i did was treat gas tank and filled it up, ran it for 45 min. sat all winter that way.po must not have rid'n much, 14000 miles ain't much in 61/2 years!po didn't take very good care of it either! Hope i don't have to end up tak'n carbs off,carbs have never been my fortay!! but am mechanicly inclined, with everything i have read in here tells me i think i might be able to handle it!!:rotf::rotf: