You may have had the best idea ever. Dead serious.Hmm, sounds like a knotted or clogged tube.
My FZ16 had an issue where if I turned the petcock from On to Res, it wouldn't feed the petrol to the carb, and if I turned it back, i'd have to crank it a bit so it started feeding again.
Those star crunches look pretty nice. We don't have them here. We should do a motovlog snack exchange or something