Just having a laugh.
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I drained the carb on the KTM last winter and it was a
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to get it running in the spring. I think probably there were a few drops left and it gummed up over the winter. No biggie, though, just took maybe a dozen kicks and a few extra minutes of running before she cleared out.
This year, I flipped the petcock at the end of my last ride and let it run dry.
In the past, I’ve also just put stabilizer in the tank and ran it a bit to get stabilized fuel into the carb, then parked it for the winter. Never had any problems doing that.
I still like the stabilizer. I’ve never felt any downside to using it, and I’ve had a tank of old/bad fuel ruin a day’s riding. Admittedly though, that fuel was more like a year old. The KTM only gets ethanol-free 91.