Weird throttle issue

This is probably an easy fix, but being somewhat new to motorbikes I thought I'd ask.

I put new handlebars on my maxim. Lower straight bars to be exact. Today was the first day I started it since doing that and everything seemed fine. Now, when I was turning it around in the garage I noticed that when the bars are turned to the right the rpm's go up as if I'm twisting the throttle. I took a look and the cable isn't kinked or anything, and obviously because they are shorter bars it's not because the cable is too short. I'm thinking maybe it just needs to be lubed? Just wanted to get some input. Has this happened to anybody before?


Oh and for the record it's been sitting for 2 months, so maybe that has something to do with it?

 

It always did that to me on stock bars, so I think it's just a thing with the handlebars being in full lock. I wouldn't worry to much about it.

 

Good to know I'm not the only one. It never did it to me with the stock bars, so that's the reason I was wondering.

Turns out all I did was adjust the nut up near the throttle on the bars (not sure that thats called) to let off some of the tension on the cable. Seemed to fix everything. Can't really explain what I did any better than that.

 

You have to have a certain amount a slack in the throttle cable. When you install a new cable or change the cable routing, etc. you will need to re-establish this slack. The same thing happened to me and getting the cable routing correct with the proper amount of slack did the trick.