bike problems

[junooni]

hey
just wanted to see if nyone of ya could help me fix my problem...i am pretty much a rookie biker...i have riden before but not that much...i just got a kawasaki ninja 900(1985) (so i can get used to a heavy bike b4 i get a new one) from my brother and he fixed everything but when i got it ova here and started it up ..it idles at 7000 rpm even after i kill the choke....lemme know what can i do to fix it..he said the choke needs adjustment and it will only tke like 10 mins to do that...but i cannot ride it to a shop coz i am afraid it will get out of cronteol at tha high rpm ......if you can fix this for me i m even willing to pay ya....lemme know asap so i can start riding this baby

[Martin]

hey
just wanted to see if nyone of ya could help me fix my problem...i am pretty much a rookie biker...i have riden before but not that much...i just got a kawasaki ninja 900(1985) (so i can get used to a heavy bike b4 i get a new one) from my brother and he fixed everything but when i got it ova here and started it up ..it idles at 7000 rpm even after i kill the choke....lemme know what can i do to fix it..he said the choke needs adjustment and it will only tke like 10 mins to do that...but i cannot ride it to a shop coz i am afraid it will get out of cronteol at tha high rpm ......if you can fix this for me i m even willing to pay ya....lemme know asap so i can start riding this baby

hey one of 2 things are happening, your stock idle setting is whacked out, or your choke cable assembly is binding up.

Does it respond at all when you turn the choke on and off? It might be sticking to 50%, that'll make a 7k idle. The exact same thing happened to my '93. What happened to mine is the little choke arm was binding up against a part of the motor causing it not to retract.
Take the tank off and look at the carburetors and see how the choke arm retracts, i'll bet its binding up at some point of its travel. It might be a sticky cable, you can try to shoot some oil down the tube and blow it through the line with some air.

whatever it is, you can still lower your idle a little bit by unscrewing the idle adjuster some, just to get it to the dealer. dont run it like that because the rich mix affects cylinder to piston lubrication.