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Originally Posted by Water Warrior
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Originally Posted by swistech
So it is alright to ride the bike with the choke wide open....It is not going to run to lean and heat the motor up and boil it......thanks
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Just to clear things up a little. The choke lever should be pulled toward the operator to engage it and pushed forward away from the operator to disengage it.
The choke is actually a fuel enrichener rather than an actual choke but we call it that anyway. And......is it alright to run the bike with the choke wide open. By wide open do you mean the choke lever is pulled back to fully engage the choke ? The engine would be running rich rather than lean. Probably foul the plug in time and probably wouldn't idle worth a darn after it warmed up to operating temp. Ideally the choke is off after a couple minutes of warm up and it will idle well without any messing around. Being that GZs are a bit fussy on ocassion there is a learning curve for the rider. |
Thats one of the things the instructors in the MSF class made a point to make sure we had drilled in our heads. ONLY use the choke when you HAVE to it would foul the plug really quick otherwise. When I use it its usually less than a minute until the bike will idle fine without the choke at all. I have the MSF BRC handbook in a pdf file if its needed. Should stil be the current version since it was November 2009 when I took the class.