Re: Monsoon and automatics: discussion on negotiating water puddles.

Thats a thinker.!! Increasing the idle rpm might help a little but increasing and decreasing the RPM everytime one goes into the puddle and out is impractical & weird. Choke is an option too...pull the choke rpm will be high for the instant. Just sayin !

And talking about dodging a puddle or a pit. Lately ive realised how dodging a pit on a road while riding is good but how it then becomes a part of our riding, and how without any conscious effort we start dodging a pits whenever we see any(without actually seeing it) as it becomes a part of our riding style.

Shit became real few days ago when i saw a guy riding. He was entering a left blind turn. But at the corner was a pitlike rough road and in order to dodge it he went around the right of it thus entering wide into corner into the lane of the upcoming vehicle(blind turn for that vehicle too), and BAM! it was. Guy didnt eccepted his fault, thus fought too... simply because i guess how normal and now a habit of his riding it might be that he didnt knew what was wrong 'actually'.
Riding in mountains or in remote areas where roads are single laned it better to go into pits and absorb a little bump or roughness and be in your lane sticking to the left rather than doging and going wide.

Re: Monsoon and automatics: discussion on negotiating water puddles.

^^^ True about lane discipline but coming back to the topic, how feasible is using the choke for a long time, say if the puddle is huge and I have to cross it?

Re: Monsoon and automatics: discussion on negotiating water puddles.

Im out of opinions. Choke is what i can think as far as possible in order to keep the revvs up. Probably gearless scoots have to deal with the situation as it is on a go/no-go basis.