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No, you're absolutely right about riding around with the choke. It was just that it was cold, and needed the thing, and it took till just out of the neighborhood to warm up past needing it. But my point was that when I'm dumb enough, and eager enough to get back riding, to use the bike for lots of stupid little short trips like this, in cold weather, well, then the actual proportion of time spent on choke is enough to degrade the mileage.
Fortunately, we've turned warm REALLY fast, and it's no longer needed, and already I'm sure I'm burning leaner, cleaner and more efficiently. Longer trips will help.
My point was, of course, that I, too, cannot resist tearing around town like an 18-year-old. It's just that when I do, I expect to notice the difference in consumption. I suspect that at 80 mph on US 84 I can go a pretty long ways on the same amount of gas that gets pissed away when I tear off from a red light, zip up to 50 or so, and then drop down to the next red light about three blocks away. I'm not accusing anybody else of being a jackass; rather, just admitting that I am one sometimes, and that I can measure the diff.
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