+1 Javier Carburated, or normally aspirated, or non-fuel injected, motors need a choke of some kind. Like Javier said, how dependent you are on the choke varies based on a lot of things.
Just because you feel you don't need it most of the time does not mean the engineers screwed up, or were just being cautious. I was kinda surprised to read that my first 1983 NightHawk was very dependent on choke. Then my wife got a 1982 450 Custom (basically the `82 2cyl NH) and it seemed to hardly ever need a choke. But it did in the winter. The designers of engines have struggled with this ever since the creation of the internal combustion engine. Fuel injected motors also need to be choked, YES they do, but that is all handled automatically when the computer detects the engine temp, the mass of the air moving into the manifold, the temperature of the motor and then can adjust the amount of fuel accordingly. There is typically also some automatic adjustment of the throttle to keep it from a high idle speed. It's not an add-on just in case, it is necessary considering the chemistry of trying to start combustion in a cold cylinder, with cold air, and cold fuel. That is the main reason people like fuel injection. Sure would be cool if someone was to come up with a fuel injection mod for the standard NH 4cyl engine. But that would take a LOT of trial and error and $, and it would not be stock anymore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
