Never had any problem with my ascot before. Took it for a ride today, and went to walmart and went in for a bit, came back out and screwed with the big plastic idle knob. That IS the idle knob, right? Lowered the idle a little too much, the bike backfired and died. Raised it back up and started it back up, and the bike would not stay running. Kept popping (much quieter) and trying to die at idle, but ran fine at high speed. Seemed a little lean but ran fine above 3000 rpm so i limped it home (one mile).....
got home and started messing with it, and saw that the popping was coming out of between the engine and the plastic intake manifold. The top screw is backed WAY out, theres a gap there (air leak), and theres a little gasket material sticking out.
Did i do something worse than what it seems? Looks like i can just pop a new gasket in and torque the screws down. Did i hurt it? :/