Vtx 1300s honda - starts sluggish - when it warms up finally, it runs good . somtimes the choke runs good and every thing is fine. today started it up, ran to the first red light , the bike died, ran the bike a little furthur and when it warmed up it ran fine.

You obviously unplugged something somewhere, check in the headlight.. a lot of connectors hide in there.

Carb needs cleaned out. If you stored it with out turning gas off and running it dry will cause it to gum the carb. Dry gas might help. You might try using carb cleaner through the air filter intake. have someone help you. get it started and keep gunning it while putting carb cleaner into it. start slow. This should take care of it. Might also need to replace plugs. But I do believe it is the carb. I work on small engines.

Wish I could help but mine , '06 does the same thing. Turned the idle up and it helped quite a bit, but still have to leave the choke on at least 10-15 minutes. New plugs and cleaning the carb did nothing. Gonna try adjusting the A/F screw today.

tap bowl on carb sounds like float stuck in down position,

your carbs not getting enough fuel check the bowl and jets. I run a pice of wire down the jets even if they look open just to be sure. Speaker wire strands work well for the tiny holes

under the rear of the seat on both side there is a allen bolt if i remenber right it is a 6mm remove bolts and the seat will come off
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Mark
C.C. Motorsports

Make sure the choke is pushed ALL the way in. If you've been using it, you may have fouled the plugs.

starter solenoid could be bad

ok first you got to find the link that takes the chain apart after you do that loosen the bolts that hold the tire on if you cant do that you can use a breaker bar or put a pipe or on the end of you rachet that will give you more leverage. then sloed the tire forword so you can undo the chain and slide tire off