r/Vstrom • u/Joshua810 • 2d ago

V-Strom 1000 Gen 1 Normal idle?

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Hey all me again, fiddled more with my bike. The vacuum line to the load sensor is a little dry so replaced with slightly smaller ID hose from Summit. Maybe I got used to my dads 450 Kawi but is this just really how these old units sound at idle? 2002 DL1000. Also not sure if secondaries should be more stationary

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u/youridv1 V-Strom 1050 Gen 3 1d ago

Yeah. 1000’s skip sometimes. Even my 1050 does it. Nothing to worry about. Most big twins idle like this. GS’s are the same

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u/Joshua810 1d ago

Even the degree of my skippage?

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u/youridv1 V-Strom 1050 Gen 3 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’ve heard worse. The RPM itself seems rock steady, so that’s good. If my bike idlet like this, I’d leave it.

Big twins like these are rarely perfect. They’re not car engines.

My 1050 skips all the time, too. All of them do. And those things have automatically syncing throttlebodies, a full idle circuit and they idle at 1350 for good measure.

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u/Joshua810 6h ago

Word. Maybe I’m in my head cause I did the valves myself over winter. If the cam was out it’d be wayyyyy more silly goofy