choke?

From Wikipedia...

Choke valves are important for normally-aspirated gasoline engines because small droplets of gasoline do not evaporate well within a cold engine. By restricting the flow of air into the throat of the carburetor, the choke valve reduces the pressure inside the throat, which causes a proportionally greater amount of fuel to be pushed from the main jet into the combustion chamber during cold-running operation. Once the engine is warm (from combustion), opening the choke valve restores the carburetor to normal operation, supplying fuel and air in the correct ratio for clean, efficient combustion. Choke valves are common in most small portable engines,motorcycles, small prop-powered aeroplanes and normally-aspirated marine engines.


So NO - you can't "bypass" the choke if you want to be able to start the engine...

For spare parts use Yellow Pages for where you live - Look under Motorcycles.

Good luck...

Peccavi
October 2009