Not Choke but Fast Idle Lever on S4R Help =)

[ROBsS4R]

The Choke on my S4R is all out of wack.

Normally I need to push it back about 1/4 of the way to start the bike and once its warmed up I can push it back to the starting position but last night I had the hardest time starting the bike. I need to push it almost to the max now to start the bike and I have to keep it half way once its warm to stay started.

For being someone who my friends wont give me anything sharper than a spoon to play with how hard is it to adjust the choke?

[desmoquattro]

So, first of all the S4R, being a fuel-injected bike, does not have a choke. It has a fast-idle lever. Sure, it's just a matter of semantics. Just trying to be accurate.

One possibility: your fast idle cable may have stretched. Take a look at the cable it's attached to. Trace the housing down to where the cable emerges and it wraps around the half-circle-shaped thing that operates your butterfly valves. See if there's slack in it. If so, your cable may have stretched. If not, then I'd start to look at other things.

[ROBsS4R]

So, first of all the S4R, being a fuel-injected bike, does not have a choke. It has a fast-idle lever. Sure, it's just a matter of semantics. Just trying to be accurate.

One possibility: your fast idle cable may have stretched. Take a look at the cable it's attached to. Trace the housing down to where the cable emerges and it wraps around the half-circle-shaped thing that operates your butterfly valves. See if there's slack in it. If so, your cable may have stretched. If not, then I'd start to look at other things.

I will check that out... Thanks.

It really needs a tune-up. I prob cant afford to take it to Nichols till the first of January.

[Popeye the Sailor]

I would suggest that the hard starting is more the result of the woeful neglect it's seen 


Just bring it to them, get them to do the 12k and have them check out the lever while they're at it, though I suspect it's the oil that's about 3 changes overdue and the plug that have been in twice as long as they should've.

[Jammen]

Did you just give someone else shit for neglecting an S4r?

Pot, meet kettle. 

[ROBsS4R]

Did you just give someone else shit for neglecting an S4r?

Pot, meet kettle. 

Yeah no shit 

well it is neglected.  Up in till last wednesday I did ride it everyday rain or shine. Its prob just pissed at me since I bought the S2000 and parked it right next to it. My tune-up is well... about 4k over do now 

[Popeye the Sailor]

Did you just give someone else shit for neglecting an S4r?

Pot, meet kettle. 

Oh like you can talk about neglecting a duc.


I'm told, in theory, the pil of parts downstairs could actually be assemble into a perfectly useable bike.


Assuming none got lost in the last 14 or so months it's been in pieces.

[Jammen]

Taking it apart was a labor of love.

Unfortunately the love ran out about the time all the parts got in.   

Besides, I took great care of the thing when it was together, just happens that it didn't appreciate that many miles.   

[Popeye the Sailor]

Besides, I took great care of the thing when it was together, just happens that it didn't appreciate that many miles.   

Salt encrusted roads in freezing rain in December two hours a day was taking care of it?

[Jammen]

I was lubing the chain every 500 miles, or every three days.   

Helps keep the ice off.