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Message: [QUOTE="Birken Vogt, post: 636311, member: 29698"] Hello all, I live in Northern California where it is very dry most of the time and have an XR600. Well this last weekend it was raining at about 65 degrees and I thought I would ride in it. The riding was nice except for the puddles of muck, but the bike lit off fine and I rode it a short distance, after which it started running terrible. It would buck 5 or 6 times when rolling the throttle from low RPM and had general lack of torque all over the low end and was constantly coughing and dying. It was miserable riding the twisty mountain roads and hill climbs. It has a stock exhaust, but seems to have been jetted for the baffle removed. I had started the day with the baffle out. Then I put the baffle in hoping it would run better but there was not much difference. In ordinary circumstances the baffle tends to make it run rich and load up (not bad though) but there was not much change this time, being as how it was already running so awful. It would run OK under wide throttle openings such as going uphill. It was not raining to speak of, just spitting a little bit here and there, and there was not much standing water to run through. But the humidity was up around 100%. Now when I got the pig home I went to ride it around the field, baffle still in and it was running fine. I replaced the spark plug just for the heck of it. The old one was black but not fluffy or bad looking. I had to redo both the spark plug connection where the boot screws into the wire and the brass contact where it connects to the spark plug (added a little blob of solder to compensate for the wear) but these were minor and I don't think the problem. The only thing I could think was different was the humidity. But it doesn't seem to add up. What do you think? Birken [/QUOTE]

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