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I was riding my bike today and all of a sudden when i went to shift from 3rd to 2nd it just died. I pulled over and it wouldnt start again for 10min, this happened twice on my way home

what could the reason be

This may sound stupid, but my 82 Virago 920 would really sputter and sometimes die if I left the choke on after it had warmed up.

unfortunately i dont think thats it, my coke is just a lever you push down and it snaps back up.
I had to really give it gas to attemp to keep it running but it still just sputtered, was it possiblr that i didnt let it warm up enough? It seems to just want to die when i shift, it just sputters and just runs out of power when it gets in gear, just no power at all till it quits.. it very weird

also it has a strang metallic sound comming from the cylinder that wasnt there before, almost like a rattleing, i dont know what up..

i jsut removed the spark plugs and the left one is way more gunked up than the right one? why?

My r5 was fouling the plug in one cylinder more than the other and i
de-carbed the piston crown, the ring grooves and the rings as well as the cylinder head. It seemed to help. Have you tried that?
Alternatively re the loss of power, have you checked the muffler baffles? are they coked up?...

bad gas (water) or fuel filter clogged? my mazda and ford did the same thing, but never happened on my bike. i 2 have one plug that fouls more than the others, but cleaning it helped. good luck!!!