It's not really a choke but instead it just dumps a little extra fuel into the carbs. I just pull it out full to start and ride it for a minute or so until I figure it will run ok, then I push it back in. It's like having a huge idle jet, not a real choke, so the worst that will happen is a little extra fuel consumption while it's pulled. Real chokes can cause a stall, and will always cause terrible performance and fuel mileage, once the bike is warmed up. Our pseudo choke doesn't do that. A few years ago I went about 130 miles with the “Choke” pulled and the only thing that happened was I got a mile or two less per gallon. A real choke would have had me surging and sputtering within a few minutes of startup.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.