Guys, have you encountered carburetor frosting? If yes, did you solve that problem, and if yes - how?
Today I went to the lake, to have some fun, and after 5-6 minutes of driving the engine started loosing power, misfiring, and then I understood that the carb has frozen. I barely got home (2-3km) and probably the vacuum valve (or however it's called: right part of the carb) has frozen, and when I'm not giving gas it's still RPM-ing high.
Thoughts: take some copper wire/tube/rod (~3-5mm thick), one end of it bend around the exhaust pipe at the cylinder, other end - around carb, so the heated copper rod heats the carb. OR make some hot air "pickup" from the exhaust pipe to the air filter. Another thought is to make some sort of "hot air catchers", and they would direct hot air from cylinder to the carb.
And maybe last thought: electrical heater for a carb (???). Like this one off a KTM, if possible (SOMEHOW) to adapt it to the XT... Brand New KTM Carburetor Heating Kit XC XCW 2006 2012 55131003044 | eBay
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