Ducati Monster Forum

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?

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.

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.

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

Pot, meet kettle.  [laugh]

Yeah no shit  ;D

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  :-\

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.

Taking it apart was a labor of love.

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

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

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

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

Helps keep the ice off.   ;D