Hey people, new to this site. Been reading it from time to time. I just picked up an 02 right before christmas and have been basically restoring it. It was mainly in stock condition but a lot of stuff had been deleted and the wiring was screwed. Overall it was still in pretty good shape for the year though, just kinda worn and let go and worked on by anyone with pliers and a bolt box. Anyway, this thread prompted me to sign up because every since I had this bike it's been hell to start after it had been sitting a few days. I finally figured out that I could start it by rocking it side to side first and then repeating when it started to die. This was with the choke knob pulled. There were a lot of repairs made in the process, but the latest discovery I made was while cleaning the carbs that neither of my float bowls had a ball plug on the side opposite the bowl drain pipe but there were passages cast into it. So I began tracing the choke circuit and began to realize that the bowl of the carb with the choker must be missing a passage way. So I began to look on ebay at people who had stock carbs for sale to see if my hunch was correct. Sure enough, on the ads that had good enough pictures to see, the choker carb bowl had a ball plug at the very bottom on the outside of the bowl and the non choker didn't. This makes perfect sense to me. If the pick up tube from the choker circuit can't draw fuel from the bowl, it's never going to work right. I think this is why it would run for about 5 seconds then stop if I didn't keep rocking it side to side. I think what was happening was the rocking action must have been allowing enough fuel to spill into the pickup tube passage way to make things happen but was quickly used up and only by rocking the machine again would it fill the tube up again. With the passage way there, the choke circuit can continuously draw from the bowl till the choke is closed. So in essence what I had was a right side float bowl on each carb. Well, I drilled a hole to connect the pickup hole with inlet hole and then drill and tapped for a set screw. Which I loctited in place. I am hoping this cures my cold starting problem as it should allow enough fuel to richen both carbs. I don't see the need to connect the same passage on the right carb bowl because it looks to me like the choke inlet circuit on the right carb goes right to the main bore of the carb. Plus, all of the pairs I have seen for sale have all had just the choker carb bowl drilled and plugged. We'll see...